Comma.ai is a company dedicated to the development of artificial intelligence-based autonomous driving systems for cars. At the recent technical annual conference, Comma.ai announced that it will add map-based navigation to the latest version of the open-source autopilot software Openpilot 0.9.4 .
Openpilot is mainly aimed at the field of modified cars. This project includes a set of auxiliary function programs for ordinary cars to realize driverless driving. At present, it has supported about 250 car models on the market, and it is said that "users are all over the world." Ordinary cars only need to install compatible hardware to cooperate with Openpilot to achieve "autonomous driving". However, this open source project is more for "experimental" purposes, and it will have certain risks if it relies entirely on the automatic driving software.
In version 0.9.4 of Openpilot, users can directly select points on the map and let the car automatically drive to the destination. Users can further decide the driving route, and can instantly change the driving route of the car according to the road congestion .
Comma.ai conducted a related technical demonstration last year. Engineers used a Kia car equipped with Openpilot autopilot software and Comma 3 car hardware for autopilot.
It is reported that the Comma 3 car machine hardware can input the images captured by the two cameras on the front of the car and the navigation map into the AI model to predict the next driving route in real time.
In order to improve the accuracy of the judgment of the AI model, the official stated that in addition to inputting information such as "external image information, map navigation routes", the AI model will also jointly perform calculations and predictions based on the latitude and longitude information input by the GPS sensor to improve the accuracy of automatic driving navigation. precision.
In terms of Openpilot training, the Comma.ai team said that they used a large number of 60-second driving record clips, combined with map data to establish a dedicated database, and after multiple training sessions, the model can "learn how to drive like a human being."