Glossary

Autopilot

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Software brand of Tesla, includes ADAS and autonomous driving functions. Version 9 (2018 release) includes more advanced self-driving features.  

Blind Spot Monitor

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The Blind Spot Monitor uses sensors to detect objects passing or about to come close to the driver’s side of the car, triggering an visual or audio alert to the driver. This might be a…

Blockchain

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Distributed ledger technology which may be used in future over-the-air updates on vehicles to increase software security. As automotive technology becomes more software orientated, and connectivity becomes more widespread within in-vehicle technology from sensors to…

Caffe

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CAFFE (Convolutional Architecture for Fast Feature Embedding) is a deep learning framework, originally developed at UC Berkeley. It is open source, under a BSD license. It is written in C++, with a Python interface.

Camera

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Type of optical sensor with lens and image signal processors, providing low-latency data feed to the dashboard and / or to further processing for computer vision tasks. Lens and ISP will vary depending on application,…

CarPlay

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CarPlay is an Apple standard that enables a car radio or head unit to be a display and also act as a controller for an iPhone. It is available on all iPhone 5 and later…

CAV

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Connected Autonomous Vehicle, the preferred term in the UK.

Construction zone assist

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The construction zone assist system keeps the car within a narrower lane by way of steering corrections. To do this, the system takes data from video and ultrasonic sensors and calculates a safe distance on…

Cross Traffic Alert

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Uses side-facing sensors such as RADAR, camera or ultrasonic sensors to alert the driver to traffic moving at a right-angle to the vehicle. Located near the front or rear of the vehicle, detecting traffic that…

CUDA

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Parallel computing platform and application programming interface (API) model created by Nvidia.