Drive.ai, a startup born out of Stanford’s AI lab, just raised $50 million to design and sell the brain for self-driving cars.
That car brain comes in the form of a retrofit kit that uses off-the-shelf sensors, like radar and lidar, to help self-driving vehicles navigate.
Drive.ai’s main calling card, however, is its deep learning software that Drive.ai CEO Sameep Tandon says will allow vehicles to learn to handle difficult driving scenarios at a faster pace.
“What we are building at Drive.ai is the brains for self-driving cars,” Tandon told Business Insider. “We think self-driving cars are going to make roads safer, give us our time back, and re-imagine our cities.”
Deep learning is a branch of artificial intelligence that lets machines learn as they go. That…