Toyota, NTT plan US$3.27 billion outlay on mobility AI system for autonomous driving

The carmaker and telecommunications giant said in a joint statement on Thursday that they want to develop a mobility AI platform that uses large amounts of data to support driver-assist technology, aiming to have a system ready by 2028.

Toyota and NTT said they hope the platform will help with things such as preventing accidents caused by poor visibility in urban areas, supporting autonomous-driving services and making it easier to merge on expressways.

Their goal is to make the system available not just for themselves, but for other industry players, the government and academic partners who want to reduce traffic accidents to zero, targeting widespread adoption from 2030 onwards.