IHS Sees 122 Million Units of AI Systems for Self-Driving Cars Shipping by 2025

Unit shipments of artificial intelligence systems used in car infotainment systems and advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), including autonomous vehicles, are expected to rise from just 7 million in 2015 to 122 million by 2025, IHS said in a Monday report. The “attach rate” of AI-based systems in new vehicles was 8 percent in 2015, and “the vast majority were focused on speech recognition,” IHS said. “That number is forecast to rise to 109 percent in 2025, as there will be multiple AI systems of various types installed in many cars.” AI-based systems in automotive applications today are “relatively rare, but they will grow to become standard in new vehicles over the next five years,” IHS said. It sees the biggest growth in infotainment “human-machine interface” uses, such as speech and gesture recognition, eye tracking and driver monitoring, and ADAS and autonomous vehicles, including camera-based machine vision systems, radar-based detection units, driver condition evaluation, and sensor fusion engine control units, it said. In ADAS, “deep learning” functions that mimic “human neural networks,” will represent “a key milestone on the road to fully autonomous vehicles,” it said. “Deep learning allows detection and recognition of multiple objects, improves perception, reduces power consumption, supports object classification, enables recognition and prediction of actions, and will reduce development time of ADAS systems.”