Improved Data Collection Benefits Autonomous Vehicle Development

NI is collaborating with Seagate to enable better data storage and transfer to the cloud that will help engineering teams design safer autonomous vehicles.

August 3, 2021

NI (formerly known as National Instruments)

In this week’s episode of OEM Industry Update, editor Sara Jensen speaks with Jared Aho, Director of Marketing, Transportation at NI, about the company’s new collaboration with Seagate which aims to improve testing and development of autonomous vehicles. NI’s high performance in-vehicle data logging systems will be brought together with Seagate’s data transfer and edge storage services to help original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and suppliers efficiently leverage data to ensure the safety and reliability of autonomous vehicles.

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