Technology to Bring Self-Driving to Older Vehicles

A company called Derive Systems has been playing in this space for some time now, both on the enthusiast side of things and also with fleets. After all, if you're Comcast and have thousands of trucks that spend their lives visiting install sites, remapping your engines—at the expense of, say, towing performance—can save between 8 and 12 percent on fuel costs, according to Derive's CEO, David Thawley. Thawley told us that more than 1.5 million installs of his company's technology platform are currently driving around. As a result, the company has built up a hefty knowledge base of how to work with different OEM systems, many of which feature different implementations of the field's standards. And Thawley now wants to offer that know-how to new players in the connected-car world so they can get up to speed.