But in the meantime, all sort of pieces of technology to facilitate autonomous vehicles is being developed and finding its way into our current cars. At the moment, the products TomTom is working on are aimed primarily at reducing fuel consumption, but they are definitely also part of the ever-expanding technology required for driverless vehicles; if and when they become ubiquitous. TomTom CEO, Harold Goddijn, doesn't appear too concerned about how long it will be before driverless vehicles will be part of our everyday lives. You could say that we're already there with semiautonomous driving, and the reality is that we'll transition through stages towards a fully autonomous future." In fact, TomTom already faces stiff competition from the likes of HERE and Alphabet Inc.'s Google in the race to dominate the "dynamic," or HD maps, market.

Source: dna April 11, 2018 04:57 UTC