Despite the many and varied recent developments in the field of connected vehicles and autonomous vehicles, the most important are those related to safety, and as part of their work in the now booming industrial sector, Toyota Motor Corporation and NTT have agreed on a joint initiative in the field of mobility, artificial intelligence and communications with the aim of enhancing safety. The driver.
To achieve this goal, Toyota The company develops software-defined vehicles (SDVs) with safety and security as a top priority, with the aim of preventing accidents caused by poor visibility and supporting automated driving services.
Along with the development of SDVs, the global auto giant said it will become more important to build supporting infrastructure, such as high-speed and high-quality communications infrastructure, artificial intelligence infrastructure that can collect massive amounts of information and process it intelligently, and computing infrastructure.
In order to achieve a society free of traffic accidents, the two companies said it is necessary to adopt a collaborative infrastructure approach that constantly connects people, mobility and infrastructure, as well as the development of driving support systems based on data-driven technology in cars and the development of future automation. Driving technology.
Through previous cooperation, the two companies believe they share common values, such as contributing to society through technological and industrial development, people-centered approach and global contributions.
For this project, NTT Toyota will deepen their cooperation to achieve a “traffic accident-free society” as a first step towards achieving a “prosperous mobility society where safety and freedom are in harmony.”
In practice, the cooperation will consist of three parts: preventing collisions at blind intersections; developing advanced driving support and future data-driven automated driving systems; And AI learns based on large amounts of driving data.
At the heart of the project will be a co-built Mobility AI platform that combines communications infrastructure with artificial intelligence and computing platforms aimed at intelligently processing large amounts of data, which is crucial to supporting autonomous and driver-assistance technologies. It will also include an intelligent communications platform and a distributed computing platform (data center) to analyze and process the vast amounts of data generated by artificial intelligence.
The data centers will be installed in distributed locations, using some of the communications technologies associated with the NTT-led Innovative Optical and Wireless Next Generation Network (IOWN) optical infrastructure project. By locating data centers in areas rich in renewable energy, the companies claim they can use locally produced electricity and achieve high energy efficiency in coordinating and processing distributed computing and artificial intelligence resources.
In addition, companies are building a system to coordinate human mobility infrastructure through communications suitable for different traffic environments and conditions in urban, rural and suburban areas. The AI infrastructure platform will learn and infer from data coming from human mobility infrastructure.
Over the course of the initiative, the two companies plan to invest a total of 500 billion yen by 2030. They will begin developing the Mobility AI platform in 2025. Starting around 2028, under the three-pronged infrastructure, they will begin social implementation and collaboration with various partners. It is expected to be widely adopted from 2030 onwards.
