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Published 6 years ago by ubthejudge with 2 Comments
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Toyota’s new self-driving car can ‘see’ up to 200 meters in every direction

Toyota Research Institute, the Silicon Valley-based arm of the biggest carmaker in the world, just unveiled the latest version of its autonomous test vehicle. The vehicle — a Lexus LS 600hL test vehicle equipped with LIDAR, radar, and camera arrays — is an iterative improvement on the vehicle Toyota showed off twice last year. (The institute is calling this one Platform 3.0.) The car will be on display at CES in Las Vegas next week.

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  • tranxene (edited 6 years ago)
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    What is that beautiful thing in the trunk of the car?

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    • AdelleChattre
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      The vehicle’s computational architecture for operating the automated vehicle components, which previously consumed nearly all trunk space, has also been consolidated. The electronics infrastructure and wiring in condensed into a small box exquisitely adorned with an LED-lit TRI logo

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