A fast emerging trend from this year’s tech extravaganza is the use by carmakers of Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a way of accelerating the development of autonomous vehicles. If a car can learn from its errors and from its owner, it will be able to navigate spaces and terrains without mapping and will be able […]The post Toyota Concept-i appeared first on Pursuitist.

A fast emerging trend from this year’s tech extravaganza is the use by carmakers of Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a way of accelerating the development of autonomous vehicles. If a car can learn from its errors and from its owner, it will be able to navigate spaces and terrains without mapping and will be able to make the right decision if a familiar route suddenly changes.Toyota’s Concept-i car can conceivably do all of those things, but it will do so in a way that still makes the driver feel like they’re in complete control.“At Toyota, we recognise that the important question isn’t whether future vehicles will be equipped with automated or connected technologies,” said Bob Carter, senior vice president of automotive operations for Toyota. “It is the experience of the people who engage with those vehicles. Thanks to Concept-i and the power of artificial intelligence, we think the future is a vehicle that can engage with people in return.”For Toyota’s developers at CALTY Design Research and at its Innovation Hub (both based in California) thi...