BENGALURU: Engineering and design services firm Tata Elxsi has stopped focusing on its driverless car testing solution due to slowing demand from a few automakers, its top executive said.
In 2017, the Bengaluru-headquartered Tata Group company had talked about plans to carry out testing of driverless cars using solutions developed through its platform Autonomai and had licensed the solution to a top automotive company.
Autonomai is a middleware platform that is built to act as an interface between hardware such as stereoscopic cameras, radars and artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning algorithms, to respond to actual driving scenarios.
“The need for full autonomy seems to have disappeared for the moment and what is coming in is assisted driving. So, some elements of our Autonomai are of interest and relevance to our customers, which is what we are now licensing,” Madhukar Dev, chief executive officer and managing director, told ET.
The company has “slowed down” work on driverless cars, Dev added.
BENGALURU: Engineering and design services firm Tata Elxsi has stopped focusing on its driverless car testing solution due to slowing demand from a few automakers, its top executive said.
In 2017, the Bengaluru-headquartered Tata Group company had talked about plans to carry out testing of driverless cars using solutions developed through its platform Autonomai and had licensed the solution to a top automotive company.
Autonomai is a middleware platform that is built to act as an interface between hardware such as stereoscopic cameras, radars and artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning algorithms, to respond to actual driving scenarios.
“The need for full autonomy seems to have disappeared for the moment and what is coming in is assisted driving. So, some elements of our Autonomai are of interest and relevance to our customers, which is what we are now licensing,” Madhukar Dev, chief executive officer and managing director, told ET.
The company has “slowed down” work on driverless cars, Dev added.
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