The world is still enamoured with the idea of autonomous vehicles despite some hiccups in their (very) public testing and the fact that some humans, who feel they are the early adopters, haven’t quite figured out what they should or shouldn’t be doing with the semi-autonomous systems available in some cars. If the mature car markets do move to fully autonomous cars, then … [Read more...]
An Update on Nokia Maps, Now Called Here
A few years ago, a consortium of German auto makers acquired the Nokia Maps business to help embed the system into their cars and to manage their relationships with Apple and Google. Nokia had bought a company called Navteq back in 2007. Navteq was a mapping company that used first hand knowledge of terrain rather than official Government sourced maps unlike many of their … [Read more...]