KUALA LUMPUR: Car trading platform myTukar Sdn Bhd announced it has successfully deployed its artificial intelligence (AI)-driven Car Defect Detection and Car Plate Masking system, which will soon be rolled out to Carro Group's Southeast Asia markets in Singapore, Thailand and Indonesia.
The technology, said to be able to detect car defects within three seconds, automates and standardises car inspection and uses AI to detect multiple types of car defects – from fit and finish, panel alignment, damage, dents, scrapes and scratches.
This results in improved inspection time savings of up to 20 per cent, while protecting the privacy and security of customers, and also improving efficiency in car plate masking by up to 20 per cent, while reducing human error by up to 80 per cent.
According to myTukar, this consequently increases the overall productivity and efficiency of the company's operations within its 2,000 authorised dealerships, as an accurate car inspection report can be produced in seconds.
"The cutting edge myTukar AI was developed as a result of our passion to digitally transform the used car industry to ultimately benefit our customers and to digitalise the industry," said myTukar chief executive officer Fong Hon Sum.
"myTukar is the first tech company in the used car industry to set up an in-house data science team to provide both system efficacy and customisation."
"However, more than just digitalising the used car market, the myTukar AI that we are implementing in our business operations today is but a glimpse of what is possible for the entire automotive industry in the near future. With a powerful self-diagnostic tool built on AWS such as myTukar AI, the entire customer experience within the automotive industry can be radically transformed," added Fong.
"Most importantly, with the use of myTukar AI, we are benefiting our customers by strengthening the trust and increasing the transparency of the car inspection process".
The proprietary autonomous vehicle inspection technology known as myTukar AI is built on Amazon Web Services (AWS). It uses computer vision and machine learning algorithms powered by a combination of Amazon Rekognition and Amazon SageMaker.
Amazon Rekognition is a cloud-based computer vision service that makes it easy to analyse images and videos using proven, highly scalable, deep learning technology. Amazon SageMaker on the other hand is a fully managed service that provides every developer and data scientist with the ability to easily build, train, and deploy machine learning (ML) models quickly.
The roll out of myTukar's AI technology is in line with Carro Group's strategy to continuously expand and digitalise car trading for the Southeast Asia region.