Google Maps switches to HD to assist with driver assistance systems, debuts on Volvo EX90 and Polestar 3

Google has a new “HD maps” service, but it’s not what you think it is. This is not an extremely beautiful high-resolution version of Google Maps, but instead a more detailed version of the map made available through Google Automotive Services to help with driver assistance systems. cars in cars perform better.

Additional “HD” data in the map provides insights such as precise lane markets and other objects such as traffic signs to help the driver assistance system navigate traffic. It’s not something you might see on the Google Maps interface on your Android Automotive interface.

The first systems to use the new data set will be those in the Volvo EX90 and Polestar 3. Data from the HD map will be combined with data from the car’s sensors (including lidar) and processed. driven through the Nvidia Drive AI platform to make the vehicle’s driving assistance more predictable, safe and comfortable.

The Volvo EX90 By the way, has been hinted for a launch in Malaysia! Maybe not so soon though, as production of the EX90 is only scheduled to start at Volvo’s plant in South Carolina sometime later this year and at the Daqing plant in China only in 2024.

For pole star 3unfortunately, so far there is no word on any potential Polestar brand introduction here.

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