Investors in Nauto's $159M series B-round included Softbank, Greylock, Playground Global, Draper Nexus as well as leading strategics including BMW, GM, Toyota, and Allianz Insurance. As a core member of the AI Machine Learning Infrastructure team, you will build, evolve, and scale state-of-the-art machine learning system infrastructure powering Nauto's data and AI platform. You will own and operate deep learning training systems, models serving systems, and dataset management pipelines. You'll be a key engineer contributing to the design, development and operation of the large-scale infrastructure systems. You'll work with our deep learning researchers and backend engineers to implement scalable solutions to solve complex problems.

Nauto uses AI computer vision technology to improve the driving safety of commercial fleets today and the autonomous fleets of tomorrow. By using artificial intelligence on Nauto's camera device, we're able to detect distractions and immediately warn drivers in real-time. Nauto's intelligent driver safety system assesses how drivers interact with the vehicle and the road ahead to reduce distracted driving and prevent collisions. Are you ready to help with this mission? Investors in Nauto's $159M series B-round included Softbank, Greylock, Playground Global, Draper Nexus as well as leading strategics including BMW, GM, Toyota, and Allianz Insurance.

Nauto is an AI technology company that's improving the safety of commercial fleets today and the autonomous fleets of tomorrow. Nauto's intelligent driver safety system assesses how drivers interact with the vehicle and the road ahead to reduce distracted driving and prevent collisions. With this knowledge, Nauto is powering the development of self-driving technology that brings the best of human driving to autonomy. Are you ready to help with this mission? Nauto is backed by SoftBank Vision FundGroup Corp., Greylock Partners, BMW iVentures, General Motors Ventures, Toyota AI Ventures, Allianz Group, Playground Global and DNX Ventures.

Using AI and lots of data Stefan Heck's startup Nauto is already saving lives on the road. While completely autonomous vehicles all the time may still be months away, this venture has found a way to apply the best in technology to make a difference today. Stefan Heck grew up between New York City and Austria. He learned to navigate ski slopes before he was three years old. Now he's helping large commercial fleets, taxi companies, automakers, and insurers navigate the applications of new technology on the roads.

LONDON (Reuters) – Softbank's Vision Fund plans to pump more money into insurance, a sector it sees as both ripe for disruption and a potential booster for its bigger bets in cars, health and financial services, a Vision Fund executive told Reuters. In the past year, the world's biggest private technology investor has backed China's largest online insurer ZhongAn 6060.HK as well as PolicyBazaar, India's biggest online insurance distributor, and app-based U.S. home insurer Lemonade. And these and other insurance bets totaling nearly $3 billion are just the start, Vision Fund dealmaker David Thevenon said. The Vision Fund has raised nearly $100 billion, almost half of it from Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund. "We believe that technology and how data is used, processed and collected is going to transform insurance," Thevenon said.

LONDON (Reuters) - Softbank's Vision Fund plans to pump more money into insurance, a sector it sees as both ripe for disruption and a potential booster for its bigger bets in cars, health and financial services, a Vision Fund executive told Reuters. In the past year, the world's biggest private technology investor has backed China's largest online insurer ZhongAn (6060.HK) as well as PolicyBazaar, India's biggest online insurance distributor, and app-based U.S. home insurer Lemonade. And these and other insurance bets totaling nearly $3 billion are just the start, Vision Fund dealmaker David Thevenon said. The Vision Fund has raised nearly $100 billion, almost half of it from Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund. "We believe that technology and how data is used, processed and collected is going to transform insurance," Thevenon said.

Finding applications of artificial intelligence in the automotive industry requires only a scant reading of news headlines. From IBM Watson's partnership with the General Motors OnStar platform to Toyota's $1 billion investment in AI-based self-driving technology, the marriage of AI with automotive technology has surely been consummated. It seems that every stakeholder in the automotive industry is looking for a way to capitalize on recent advances in AI technology. While artificial intelligence automotive applications that involve driverless cars receive the most attention, this is only one of many uses for artificial intelligence in the car industry. In this article, we will look at artificial intelligence automotive industry trends to see what factors are driving this explosive new market. Although attempts to create driverless cars began in the 1970s, the lack of suitable technology kept autonomous vehicles a distant dream for decades.

Nauto, the transportation company that aims to make human drivers safer and train autonomous vehicles for all types of scenarios, has just launched Prevent. Nauto Prevent is designed to prevent distracted driving by notifying drivers when they've had their eyes off the road for too long. Nauto Prevent's notifications are dependent upon factors like how long you've had your eyes averted from the road and how fast you're driving. If you've been distracted for more than five seconds and are driving at 60 mph, you'll hear a voice notification. But if you continue to be distracted, you'll hear an alarm.

In the event of an accident, Nauto's system will take pictures of both the interior and exterior, along with automatically notifying relevant parties. Andy Rubin helped found Android, Inc., which Google acquired in 2005. Rubin stayed on, only to leave in 2014 to start Playground Global, an incubator that focuses on artificial intelligence. Now, his business is putting $12 million in Series A funding behind Nauto, a data services company that hopes to enter the automotive industry in a big way. Nauto is all about that data.

Eran Shir has an ambitious goal: Eliminate car crashes without waiting for the advent of autonomous vehicles. His company Nexar makes an app that turns smartphones into an "intelligent" dashcam that uses the phone's camera, accelerometer and gyroscope to collect information about what's happening on the road and to send it to the cloud for machine-learning analysis. Nexar now is crowdsourcing its data in San Francisco and New York to give drivers a real-time heads-up about dangers such as cars ahead suddenly stopping or swerving. "We are weaving everyone together to build a network of vehicles to track what's happening on the road, that can predict and prevent accidents," said Shir, co-founder and CEO of Tel Aviv's Nexar, which has offices in San Francisco and New York. For instance, "If you brake hard, all the cars behind you will be aware of that within 50 milliseconds."