Computer Vision News - April 2019

I have seen visitors coming from all around: from the West Coast and the Silicon Valley, from Canada, from Europe and also a considerable group from Asia, mainly Chinese, Japanese, Korean and more, including several manufacturers of components, chipsets wires and connectors. There were representative coming from all kind of research institutes: all the automotive ecosystem was there! I would also like to talk about current and upcoming trends. The show made it clear that we are going to experience a two-stage transformation: the first is already happening, as we saw a couple of months ago at CES 2019 , with autonomous taxis driving along the Strip. All this is going to be the robotaxi: like Uber , Lyft , Zoox and others. They do not give much importance to the look of the car as much as they care for its functionality. Indeed, they have specific needs. Let’s say it’s a huge bulk with many sensors around. Their business is to drive you from point A to point B as safely and as quickly as possible. That’s the first stage. The second stage is going into the private and personal cars and that’s the biggest challenge: you will need to have all those capabilities, but mixed in an endless variety to fit the tastes and needs of an almost infinite multitude of car owners. How is the look and feel of the car going to change, if it’s going to be autonomous? What is the owner going to do, if some of the sensors and capabilities will not be available? The first stage is the real change, because as soon as we will have millions of robotaxis driving around, everything will be different forever. Following that, we will see autonomous trucks (like TuSimple ) and truck platoons. That’s what we are going to see, maybe not in our own garage, but all over our cities and roads. Pauline Luc 29 Computer Vision News …in Detroit, MI Event “Everything will be different forever”