Alpen schreef op 17 april 2014 14:55:
- This technology will
solve one of the biggest usability issues for in-car navigation, the difficulties of updating out-of-date maps, and is a critical component for
our new applications, including
highly automated driving;
- updating of maps will happen on a
continuous basis,
and in the background.
- Car makers see this technology as
a critical building block for making the highly automated car a reality.
- New cars are increasingly equipped with sensors, including cameras and radar, and
our aim is to connect the output of those sensors to our real-time mapping production platform for efficient change detection.
- We're opening up possibilities for
hundreds of millions of smartphone users who are using the TomTom maps to
contribute to the map making process in a highly automated way.
- it will give us a much more competitive position in the markets because
we will be the only ones with a real-time map making platform; and we see that as a critical element for some of the new applications that car makers are looking into at this moment.
- It will make us much more efficient, and it will make it much easier to maintain and expand our technology platform going forward. Our ambition, of course, is to win deals in automotive. There's a lot of activity going on, and that
will result in a large market share, I think,
in the automotive industry for TomTom.
Gezien het belang van deze realtime technologie voor TT's business en de uitgangspositie die het bedrijf hierdoor denkt te verkrijgen, zou het niet verkeerd zijn als bij de volgende conf. call of AVA een update wordt gegeven betreffende de status van dit realtime maps update platform/project."Nooit meer handmatige map updates" is in de PND hoek wellicht nog een aardig pluspunt tov de concurrentie met naar verwachting een positief effect op TT's PND marktaandeel (ten koste van dat van met name Garmin, ervan uitgaande dat op dat moment Nokia/Here niet in staat is dezelfde functionaliteit te leveren; in een afnemend maar nog steeds interessant/belangrijk marktsegment).