Samsung has permission to test unmanned vehicles

Samsung bought Harman not to complete with the flagship smartphone Galaxy S8 and S8+ was quality headphones AKG. The deal will help the company to gain a foothold in the market of automobile technologies, seen as new source of growth for the business. The seriousness of these intentions confirms permission for testing unmanned vehicles on public roads in South Korea, obtained from the authorities.

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While Samsung is not going to self-produce cars (a joint venture with Renault does not count), focusing on the development of autopilot systems and manufacture components. The company plans to use artificial intelligence technologies and machine learning to optimize the performance of the algorithms in different weather conditions. In the near future on the Korean roads will be the prototypes on the basis of Hyundai models that will be equipped with cameras and other sensors Samsung.

A similar strategy was chosen other technological giants. According to rumors, Apple decided to abandon the idea of issuing its own electric car, limiting the development of Autonomous systems. Grew out of the Google company Waymo also makes only electronics and software for self-driving cars.

Source: Korea Herald

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