In January 2016, Toyota announced the creation of the Toyota Research Institute (TRI), a $1 billion investment in AI to develop autonomous driving capabilities as well as home-care robots. Jim Adler, the first head of data at TRI, has been on the job for just two months. Before that, he was an executive at Metanautix, a data analytics platform that sold to Microsoft last year. Adler talked about how Toyota is using data and simulation to teach cars to drive themselves. Toyota Connected, which will be based in Plano, TX, will also house the Toyota Global Big Data Center. That will be sort of the big data hub, globally. Read more at http://www.techrepublic.com/article/toyota-teaches-cars-to-drive-by-studying-human-drivers/