Nissan Collaborates With Mobileye For Its Crowdsourced Real-Time Maps For Autonomous Vehicles

New reports reveal that Nissan signs up for Mobileye's crowdsourced real-time maps for its autonomous vehicles. According to reports, this is is a really big catch for Mobileye's Road Experience Management (REM) as Nissan is the third major automotive company to enter into a contract with REM.

It is reported that both companies have agreed that REM will build its high-precision road maps for use in Nissan's autonomous cars. The roadmaps are updated in real-time using crowdsourced data from cars on the road.

The Japanese automaker has now joined German automakers BMW and Volkswagen in a contract to allow Mobileye NV chips and sensors to collect driving data and use them in a collective map to enable autonomous driving. The three automakers that are now REM platform members will use the Global RoadBook maps to help their own vehicles to navigate and add redundancy to their autonomous driving software.

According to Bloomberg, Mobileye said in a statement on Tuesday that Nissan has agreed to share necessary information that will be combined with that of other automakers to create precise maps. The report also states that this is not the first collaboration between the two companies have had, as Nissan and Mobileye are already working together for the ProPilot driver-assistance system that was unveiled last year.

"We now have significant commitments from multiple global automakers to generate and share data," Chairman Amnon Shashua says. He added that the map of drivable paths and landmarks Mobileye is building, called Global RoadBook, will be a critical input within autonomous vehicle systems.

It is believed that the new contract with Nissan is crucial, as it will help contribute to the amount of crowdsourced data, thereby enhancing the quality of the real-time data that updates the maps across the platform when there is a change on the road. According to Techcrunch, the platform gets better and more attractive for other automakers with every new automaker that signs up with REM.

Signing up more automakers to share mapping data will help the company to move closer to building a map that will become the basis for an industry standard, according to Joe Spak, an analyst at RBC Capital Markets. Reports have it that the new contract with Nissan is the first deal with an automaker that Mobileye has announced since Intel Corp.

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