NTT, Toyota to Collaborate on Connected Car Technologies

NTT and Toyota agreed to collaborate on developing, verifying and standardizing connected car technology. Goals are to research and develop ways to address issues such as traffic accidents and congestion and to offer customers new mobility services, they announced. The collaboration will focus on a platform for collecting and analyzing big data; IoT networks and data centers for safe and reliable collection and distribution of data; 5G and edge computing communications in vehicles; and artificial intelligence to improve the in-vehicle experience for drivers, they said Monday. The companies plan a 2018 field trial.