Toyota's self-driving car mapping system could be a game changer With commercial satellite technology, Toyota showed it can create HD maps more quickly and do it in a cost-effective manner.

Toyota is investigating the potential to skip the use of special survey vehicles to create maps for self-driving cars by testing satellite imagery.

The carmaker's partnership with Denso and Aisin sees open source maps as the way forward for better navigation.

Toyota, Carmera will create HD maps for self-driving cars using autobrake cameras The cameras would be part of a push to speed up HD mapping for urban and local roads.

Toyota will unveil a new system that generates maps for self-driving cars at CES next month. It relies on data from Toyota vehicles already on the road.