Mobileye joins hands with Nissan for crowd-sourced mapping

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TIN news: Mobileye, a global company that develops mapping systems autonomous driving, has joined hands with Japanese automobile manufacturer Nissan Motor for generating crowd-sourced data to create next-generation precision maps.

Mobileye's Road Experience Management (REM) data generation technology will be used for creating these maps, which will serve as a source of localisation, foresight, and redundancy to ensure safe, robust autonomous vehicles in the future.

The new agreement between the two companies is reported to be the next step after the automobile manufacturer utilised Mobileye's REM mapping technology during its autonomous vehicle demonstration in London.

The agreement is also expected to further strengthen the technology relationship, where Nissan utilised Mobileye technology for its ProPILOT system to enable single-lane highway driving with autonomous control of steering, acceleration, and braking functions.

"I'm very pleased that innovative work by our engineering teams is resulting in the confidence of customers to adopt REM."

Mobileye chairman and chief technology officer Amnon Shashua said: "We welcome the opportunity to take this next step with our valued partner Nissan.

"I'm very pleased that innovative work by our engineering teams is resulting in the confidence of customers to adopt REM.

“We now have significant commitments from multiple global automakers to generate and share data from camera-equipped ADAS vehicles, and then utilise the resulting Global RoadBook as a critical input within autonomous vehicle systems."

The agreement will also help Mobileye to include data from multiple automakers and create a low-cost, scalable, geographically-diverse RoadBook in an efficient manner.