The latest from Acer: an autonomous car
So, Acer just unveiled its first self-driving car at the Taiwan Automotive Technology Innovation Summit 2018. But before you immediately bolt to Low Yat Plaza to place your booking, mind you the car is still a concept. And it is a project between Acer, the Yulon Group (one of Taiwan’s top auto assembler), its subsidiary automotive electronics provider Haitec, and Luxgen, a Taiwanese car brand and also Yulon subsidiary.
The platform is a Luxgen S3 EV, armed with Acer’s autonomous driving system which reportedly boasts Level 4 self-driving capability. Acer’s system features sensing, decision-making and control and leverages AI and sensor fusion algorithms fed with data from real-time kinematic (RTK) positioning, cameras, Lidars, MMW radars, IMU (inertial measurement unit) and ultrasonic sensors. It also utilises deep learning technology for object recognition.
[Need to find out what Level 4 autonomous vehicle offer? Read it here.]
Acer has also included a cloud management system so that a control centre can send vehicles when a user make transportation requests using a mobile phone.
“Autonomous driving is the future trend of the automotive industry, manufacturers around the world are stepping up from level 2 autonomous driving to level 3 and 4,” said Jung-Kuei Chen, vice president, product engineering group II, HAITEC. “With Acer, we’ve jointly unveiled Taiwan’s first self-driving concept car with ADAS (Advanced Driver Assistance Systems), IoV (Internet of Vehicles) and autonomous driving technology. Integrating Acer’s expertise in AI and the cloud with HAITEC’s self-developed open vehicle platform, we’ve achieved so much through our cross-industry collaboration.”
There are plans to open the Acer self-driving system to partners and developers to collaborate on next-gen self-driving services.
