Autonomous EV Developer Turing Collaborates with Taxi App S.RIDE on Autonomous DrivingJointly conducting road data collection for practical and safe autonomous driving

Turing Inc. (Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo; CEO: Issei Yamamoto; hereinafter “Turing”), a company committed to the development and sales of fully autonomous electric vehicles, is collaborating with S.RIDE Inc. (Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo; CEO: Yohei Hashimoto; hereinafter “S.RIDE”), provider of the taxi app “S.RIDE®.” They are conducting a joint project to collect learning data for autonomous driving AI development with Daiwa Motor Transportation Co., Ltd. (Koto-ku, Tokyo; President: Kazuki Otsuka; hereinafter “Daiwa Motor Transportation”).

Overview of the Data Collection Project

S.RIDE proposed using taxi sensing data to develop autonomous driving technology, and Turing installed their data collection kits in taxis operated by Daiwa Motor Transportation. From January to February 2024, they conducted a pilot program to collect public road driving data during actual taxi operations. The data will be analyzed for content and driving conditions to accelerate development of foundational models for fully autonomous driving.

Background

Turing is developing an End-to-End (E2E) autonomous driving model that makes all necessary driving decisions (steering, braking, accelerating, etc.) based on data from cameras by acquiring a vast amount of driving data from human-operated vehicles. Turing has built a driving data database that currently contains 10,000 hours of information.

Enormous amounts of data are required for practical and safe autonomous driving. Turing will deepen its long-term collaboration with S.RIDE to collect data, including different times of day, weather conditions, complex road environments, and regional characteristics to achieve fully autonomous driving.

Reference Press Release
Turing Starts Construction of the Largest Domestic Database of Images and Driving Data
https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000011.000098132.html

About Turing Inc.

Turing is startup with the stated mission, “We Overtake Tesla.” Their goal is to mass-produce fully autonomous EVs. It was co-founded in 2021 by Issei Yamamoto, developer of the AI shogi program “Ponanza” and a specially-appointed associate professor at Nagoya University, and Shunsuke Aoki, who earned his Ph.D. researching autonomous driving at Carnegie Mellon University. Turing is using deep learning AI technology to create a comprehensive autonomous driving society.

Company Overview

Company Name: Turing Inc.
CEO: Issei Yamamoto
Established: August 2021
Capital: 30 million yen (as of September 2022)
Headquarters: 4th Floor, East Tower, Gate City Osaki, 1-11-2 Osaki, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo
Business: Development and manufacturing of fully autonomous EVs
URL: https://tur.ing

Company Name: S.RIDE Inc.
Location: 5th Floor, Shiodome City Center, 1-5-2 Higashi-Shimbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo
Established: May 31, 2018
CEO: Yohei Hashimoto
Business Activities: Providing the taxi app “S.RIDE” and developing dispatch software and systems for taxi operators
Site URL: https://www.sride.jp/jp/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7Pwhc_HOfiqZzmbAAi5WpA
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/S.RIDE.TAXI
X: https://twitter.com/SRIDE_TAXI
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/s.rideofficial/

Company Name: Daiwa Motor Transportation Co., Ltd.
Location: 2-16-31 Sarue, Koto-ku, Tokyo
Established: September 13, 1939
President: Kazuki Otsuka
Website: https://www.daiwaj.com/index.html

Recruitment Information

We are seeking team members to join us in creating fully autonomous driving software and EVs.
Recruitment page: https://tur.ing/jobs

Media Contact

Turing Inc. Public Relations : pr@turing-motors.com