Toyota is developing its own crowd-sourced mapping system

Google may provide us with some of the most-detailed maps that are available on the Internet, but its reliance on its own fleet of customized mapping vehicles severely limits how quickly its able to update these maps. In an effort to exploit this limitation, Toyota has developed its own mapping system that utilizes features that are already built-in to some of its existing vehicles, and will basically turn the people driving these vehicles into unwitting map generators. The crowd-sourced mapping data that’s generated will sent to Toyota’s own data centers and turned into a mapping service that’s updated in real-time. Toyota is expected to reveal more details on the project at CES 2016 next month.