TAIPEI: Acer unveiled its self-driving concept car last week at the Taiwan Automotive Technology Innovation Summit 2018.
The Level 4-ready self-driving concept car is based on the Luxgen S3 electric vehicle platform, with Acer’s autonomous driving system in control of sensing and decision-making.
Acer said its self-driving system is able to make dynamic vehicle control decisions through AI (artificial intelligence) models based on key data including image recognition, 3D Lidar obstacle detection, high-precision maps and real-time positioning to help the car steer, brake, cruise, maneuver, or park.
It also has a cloud management system for car sharing services so that a control centre can dispatch vehicles when users make transportation requests through their mobile device. The cloud management system can manage scheduling, monitoring, notification, and reporting, and allows safety monitoring and human intervention.
In the future, Acer’s self-driving system can enable multiple levels of autonomous driving, with plans to open the platform to partners and developers to work on even more advanced self-driving services.
The concept car was built in collaboration with Luxgen and Yulon Group, one of Taiwan’s top automakers and its subsidiaries automotive electronics provider HAITEC.
