TomTom Announces Autonomous Vehicle Partnerships With Denso and Delphi

TomTom announced collaborations with Denso and Delphi in the run-up to CES. TomTom and Denso teams will partner in Japan, with TomTom’s HD Map working with Denso in-vehicle camera and radar sensors to drive the localization, perception and path planning functions for an autonomous driving system, it said Friday. The agreement targets Level 2 automation for highways and major urban roads. Sensor data will be used to update TomTom maps on the fly by generating crowdsourced map updates said to ensure the HD Map reflects current road conditions, and TomTom’s AutoStream map delivery system will send the latest map data to vehicles on demand. Delphi and TomTom, meanwhile, are working together to help powertrains become predictive, they said. The vehicle’s powertrain control system uses TomTom’s maps so it knows what’s up ahead, said the companies. Map data such as speed limits and road gradient are factored in to control a vehicle’s speed for safety and energy efficiency, they said. TomTom’s autonomous driving maps are used in 500,000 Level 1 and Level 2-enabled automated vehicles on the road today, it said.