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Recently, according to foreign media reports, Toyota plans to officially launch a fully automatic model in 2019, Toyota will take this car a unique code name-"supercomputer on wheels."

Toyota Research Advanced Development (TRI-AD) CEO James Kuffner has responded to the news by saying it is building supercomputers for the new model. However, from Toyota's existing technology accumulation, it is still difficult to achieve, no matter from software, hardware or talent reserve are far from meeting the requirements.

Of course, this is also the first step in Toyota's future planning. It is understood that Toyota plans to launch a truly civilian self-driving car next year (2020). Toyota is also making efforts to accumulate its own technology. First, to compensate for the immaturity of autonomous driving technology, Toyota teamed up with Japanese suppliers Aisin Seiki and Denso to invest $2.8 billion in the new company to design software to run autonomous vehicles. Second, let Kuffs take full control of the company, which is developing a self-driving technology called "road companion."

Kuffs has said that the project is difficult to make a real practical product. rather than building a research prototype.

At present, Toyota's proposed plan is facing challenges from talent and corporate culture. Toyota wants to launch a modified Lexus LS model in 2020, but it still doesn't have the hardware and software to match it, especially a series of advanced cameras, lidar and other equipment. It is understood that Toyota is working hard to recruit talent.

Kuffner responded to the hiring by saying,"People with aspirations actually respond very well to our mission, and I can ask talented software engineers: 'Do you want to write software to sell ads or software to save lives?' 39; then they will join us."

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