Companies unite on autonomous car OS to challenge Google

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Toyota, LG and other concerns form foundation to develop open-source system

Some 20 companies and organizations have established an association under the name “Autoware Foundation” to share their technology and knowledge to challenge Google and other leaders in the development of self-driving technology.

The founding members include Toyota Research Institute Advanced Development, British semiconductor design company Arm Holdings, LG, China’s Huawei Technologies group, Velodyne LiDAR, a leading American manufacturer of parts for autonomous driving, and Nagoya University.

Autoware is the name of an OS jointly developed by Nagoya University, Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, and other organizations related to autonomous cars.

Operating systems for self-driving vehicles play a role in recognizing obstacles on roads and in the surrounding environment, specifying their locations, and selecting driving routes in an integrated manner. They hold the key to the commercialization of autonomous cars.

Waymo, affiliated with Google, Chinese information technology firm Baidu and major automakers have been pushing ahead with the development of OSs on their own.

Tier IV, a Nagoya-based company established by developers of Autoware, has been promoting the OS. The new foundation will take over part of the work to accelerate the promotion of the system.

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