The Continental ‘TechShow Around The World Theme’ progressed with a power-packed, exhaustive webinar. Under the theme, the company marked the ‘Autonomous Mobility Theme Day 2021’ with automated and autonomous mobility as the focal points of the discussions. The sessions highlighted the range and complexity of technical systems for automated and autonomous driving and deemed them huge. It was unanimously agreed that to accomplish the end objective, technology companies are required to plan a broad positioning as well as take a holistic approach. Continental claimed to partner with the stakeholders in driving forward the development of all manifestations of automated and autonomous driving to enable solutions to address the challenges of future mobility. The subjects of discussion were Artificial Intelligence (AI) enabled autonomous mobility, global AV regulation, automated driving for commercial vehicles, the road to driverless mobility, vision to perception, seamless mobility, LiDAR, and the Global AV regulation.
AI-ENABLED AUTONOMOUS MOBILITY
The session on AI-enabled autonomous mobility touched upon the state-of-the-art AI solutions on embedded hardware. AI-enabled mobility and autonomous driving technology are known to have come a long way over the past decades and progressing steadily towards the future. Driverless capabilities have enhanced mobility systems as per leading journals researching the subject and claim it to have reached new heights. It has been cited as a key development, one that is inclusive to the older and disabled community with an end objective to offer legitimate, and affordable smart transportation. The future of transportation also depends on the private sector-led initiatives on the front of offering new mobility services which will utilise autonomous vehicles.
This story is from the September 2021 edition of Commercial Vehicle.
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