BMW, Intel and Mobileye Developing Self-Driving Cars


Car manufacturer joins forces with US computer chip giant and Israeli technology firm to bring fully automated driving into production by 2021

BMW has announced it is joining forces with US computer chip firm Intel and the Israeli technology company Mobileye to develop self-driving cars.

The three companies “are collaborating to bring solutions for highly and fully automated driving into series production by 2021”, they said in a joint statement.

The news comes amid growing interest in self-driving cars following tests over the past few years by Google, Uber, Tesla and research by many major automakers.

“BMW, Intel and Mobileye are convinced that automated driving technologies will make travel safer and easier,” they said.

The aim of the collaboration is to develop solutions that will enable drivers not only to take their hands off the steering wheel, but also reach a stage where they can also take their eyes off the road and ultimately their mind off driving, the statement continued.

The final stage would then be “driver off”, or without a human driver inside. “This establishes the opportunity for self-driving fleets by 2021 and lays the foundation for entirely new business models in a connected, mobile world,” the partners said.

While the auto industry sees self-driving cars as the way forward, US electric car company Tesla announced on Thursday that a driver was killed in a car crash in Florida in May while using the “Autopilot” self-driving mechanism on one of its models.

The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said it had opened a “preliminary evaluation” into the performance of the autopilot function in the wake of the crash.

BMW, Intel and Mobileye said “the future of automated driving promises to change lives and societies for the better”. Nevertheless, “the path to get to a fully autonomous world is complex and will require end-to-end solutions that integrate intelligence across the network, from door locks to the data centre,” they said. “Transportation providers of the future must harness rapidly evolving technologies, collaborate with totally new partners, and prepare for disruptive opportunities.”

Intel is the world’s leading maker of computer chips while Mobileye describes itself as the “global leader in the development of computer vision and machine learning, data analysis, localisation and mapping for advanced driver assistance systems and autonomous driving.”

Mobileye’s Chief Communications Officer Dan Galves has provided the following statement regarding the Tesla crash:

2We have read the account of what happened in this case. Today’s collision avoidance technology, or Automatic Emergency Braking (AEB) is defined as rear-end collision avoidance, and is designed specifically for that. This incident involved a laterally crossing vehicle, which current-generation AEB systems are not designed to actuate upon. Mobileye systems will include Lateral Turn Across Path (LTAP) detection capabilities beginning in 2018, and the Euro NCAP safety ratings will include this beginning in 2020."

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