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June 27, 2019

Training driverless cars just got a whole lot easier

Mapillary’s database of traffic signs is a fast-track driving school for autonomous vehicles


Mimi Billing

4 min read

What do you need to teach driverless cars to drive? Masses of data, especially on traffic signs. And instead of leaving each automotive company to gather their own small scale data sets, the Swedish mapping company Mapillary thinks it can speed up the process.

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Emil Dautovic is Mapillary's VP of automotive.
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Mapillary's data set of traffic signs could help speed up the development of self-driving cars.
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Mimi Billing

Mimi Billing is Sifted's Europe editor, based in Stockholm. She covers the Nordics and can be found on X and LinkedIn

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