Japan's Toyota Motor and NTT Group plan to jointly develop autonomous driving with artificial intelligence and an advanced communications network. The goal is to reduce traffic accidents.
Sources say the auto and telecom giants decided to jointly invest several billion dollars in the project over the next five years after forming a capital alliance four years ago.
Driving data collected and analyzed by NTT's AI technology and its IOWN communications network will be fed into Toyota's autonomous driving system.
Toyota and NTT have been working to promote smart cities by combining high-technology vehicles and communications infrastructure.
As competition among safe-driving technologies intensifies worldwide, the two leading Japanese companies are bolstering their alliance.
Source: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20241029_B03/