Toyota Collaborates With Ford, Japanese Giant Telecom NTT, and Microsoft

Recently, Toyota announced a partnership with the Japanese giant NIT to collaborate for the development, standardization, and verification of their technologies across the connected car realm. The collaboration was made by the Japanese companies to forge ahead with the initiatives to further the connected car and autonomous vehicle revolution.

Last January, Toyota also collaborated with Ford to boost up open-sources software deployment in cars where Toyota debut a new concept car that uses AI to understand consumer's driving habits. Microsoft announced last week that they also negotiated Toyota for internet-connected cars, the Japanese automotive giant; the company's first collaboration with a carmaker.

According to Auto News, NTT was one of the world's top telecom firms by revenue which Toyota will go to share big date garnered from its connected cars where the two companies will conduct joint R&D for solving various issues. This includes preventing road accidents and solving congestions that lead to new mobility services. Connected cars with in-vehicle technology installments have created a wealth of useful data.

The announcement of The Open Transport Partnership which is a new program that recruits GPS data from etaxi platforms helps to improve road conditions in most of the developing countries. This program was being handled by the World Bank, supported by Uber, Grab, Le Taxi, and Easy Taxi that collectively operates across dozens of countries.

According to The Verge, Toyota is now looking to do all these partnerships which focus on aggregating, collecting, and processing a ton of data from cars in real time to become useful add-on services. It seems that powerful networks are needed to accommodate such data which is where NTT solves the problem. Toyota stated that they are planning a field trial this coming 2018 which will assess the feasibility and usability of any services developed working with NTT.