TOKYO (AP) — Toyota plans to hire more people and invest heavily in its subsidiary Woven Planet to work on mobility technology so the Japanese automaker stays competitive amid the global shift to ...

Woven Planet Holdings — an entity created by Toyota to invest in, develop and eventually bring future of transportation technologies like automated driving to market — has acquired HD mapping startup ...

If Toyota has its way, the maps guiding your future autonomous vehicle won’t be delivered through Google, Apple, Baidu, or TomTom, but via a map platform as free and accessible as Linux, MySQL, Apache ...

At next month’s CES 2016 in Las Vegas, Toyota will reveal an advanced new mapping software its designed to particularly aid in the development of autonomous vehicles. Toyota’s new mapping software ...

With commercial satellite technology, Toyota showed it can create HD maps more quickly and do it in a cost-effective manner. It all started with Gran Turismo. From those early PlayStation days, Sean ...

The automaker's new map-generation system, debuting at CES, utilizes onboard cameras and GPS devices to supplant purpose-built mapping cars. Cars are Andrew's jam, as is strawberry. After spending ...