Toyota teaches cars to drive by studying human drivers - TechRepublic

Toyota plans to have its self-driving car out by 2020. It's been testing a modified Lexus GS as well as their own hybrid self-driving vehicles on the road. In January 2016, Toyota announced the creation of the Toyota Research Institute (TRI), a 1 billion investment in AI to develop autonomous driving capabilities as well as home-care robots. Jim Adler, the first head of data at TRI, has been on the job for just two months. Before that, he was an executive at Metanautix, a data analytics platform that sold to Microsoft last year. Adler talked to TechRepublic about how Toyota is using data and simulation to teach cars to drive themselves. It sounded like so much fun and interesting, and leveraged quite a bit of my experience.