Why Mercedes, General Motors, and Google Are Pushing AI For Cars
Technology tamfitronics If you’ve been covering car technology as long as I have—30-plus years—you see and hear about more than your share of vaporware. Remember when everyone from GM’s Mary Barra to Elon Musk said we’d have self-driving cars by 2020? I do. Half a decade later only Google’s Waymo is delivering on that promise.So I was skeptical last week when at semiconductor supplier Qualcomm's Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii, it showed off a slew of AI-enhanced future features for cars to celebrate the introduction of its latest silicon for software-defined vehicles (SDVs). One was head-up display style translucent overlays that show information such as a museum’s hours and admission price in a driver’s field view as they pass by. It also showed similar popups that remind young passengers in the back seat of a school...
