You need more than car parts and a fancy computer to build a driverless car. A vehicle that drives itself also needs to know exactly where it is in real time. Self-driving cars need maps. Really, really good ones.
“With autonomous vehicles, maps are going to be fundamental,” said Brian McClendon, a vice president at Uber and an expert in geospatial data visualization. “And the maps that are needed for autonomous vehicles are beyond anything that's being created today by any third party.”
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