Xenos connects any vehicle to AI systems for autonomous driving

The Xenos platform, developed by Oxford-based self-driving test vehicle specialist StreetDrone, allows the car and the AI system to safely communicate with each other.

A combination of software and hardware, the platform allows different vehicle controllers to communicate with autonomous applications, such as AI, self-driving software stacks, and remote mission control systems.

With mobility fleets such as Uber and Lyft expected to account for a significant percentage of journeys in the future, the technology will allow any vehicle to connect to an autonomous network, according to Mike Potts, founder and CEO of StreetDrone.

“I strongly believe that people will not buy autonomous vehicles, that those cars will instead be owned and operated by fleets,” said Potts. “So the real opportunity, even for the car companies, is to make their vehicles ready for autonomy, and to plug applications into those vehicles to make them smart, in a similar way that Android and Apple enabled phones to become smart by plugging applications in to them.”