Finding the needle in the haystack – the key to full autonomy

Speaking at the recent Autonomous Car Detroit event, Ken Laberteaux, Senior Principal Scientist at the Toyota Research Institute - North America, commented that while most of the work has been done, getting to full autonomy still requires a significant amount of work. “The difference between working 99% of the time and 99.99% is a whole lot more than 1%,” he said. “If we want to have these [cars] driving billions and trillions of miles every year, we have to be much closer to that 99.99%. What you see being demonstrated most of the time today is more in the region of 95-98% [autonomy]. Getting to 99.99% is going to take some time.”

At a Goldman Sachs event