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BMW, Intel and MobilEye will test self-driving cars later in 2017
BMW, Intel and MobilEye just gave a roadmap for some of their self-driving-car plans. The trio expects to test autonomous cars on roads sometime in the second half of 2017. About 40 modified BMW 7 Series sedans will start roaming American and European streets as part of a global trial. The move should show how well their partnership works in practice. And that's just the start: The three have also revealed more about their broader plans.
Here and MobilEye team up on self-driving tech for automakers
There are so many companies working on autonomous car tech that we're now seeing the inevitable next phase: partnerships and consolidation. Case in point is a tie-up between MobilEye, the sensor maker that supplied sensors to Tesla before a messy split, and Here, the mapmaker Nokia recently sold to a German automaker consortium. The idea is to package Here's HD Live mapping software with MobilEye's hardware and sell it as a third-party automated platform to any interested car manufacturers.
Delphi and MobilEye will demo their self-driving tech at CES
We'll finally get a chance to see what MobilEye's been up to since it split up with Tesla at CES 2017 in January. The company and its new partner Delphi will showcase their automated driving system called Centralized Sensing Localization and Planning (CSLP) at the yearly event in Las Vegas. They're calling CSLP the "first turnkey, fully integrated automated driving solution with an industry-leading perception system and computing platform." Their test vehicle will drive 6.3 miles of combined highway and urban roads to tackle various challenges drives face, including navigating tight city streets, looking out for pedestrians and cyclists, as well as merging on the highway.
Tesla: Mobileye tried to stop our in-house chip development
Tesla and former pal Mobileye aren't quite done airing controversial statements against each other. After the company behind Autopilot's image recognition hardware said it severed its ties with the automaker because it was "pushing the envelope in terms of safety," Tesla fired back with its own feisty response. A company spokesperson told Reuters that Mobileye wasn't happy when it learned that Tesla decided to work on its own vision chips for Autopilot. She said Mobileye "attempted to force Tesla to discontinue this development, pay them more and use their products in future hardware."
Mobileye bailed on Tesla over Autopilot safety concerns
The head of driver-assistance system maker MobilEye has said that the company ended its relationship with Tesla because the firm is "pushing the envelope in terms of safety." That's the controversial quote that CEO Amnon Shashua gave to Reuters explaining why its years-long partnership was axed just when it began to bear fruit. Unfortunately, a fatal collision between a Model S and a box truck on a Florida highway this May made MobilEye reconsider its position.
Tesla ex-partner finds someone else to help with self-driving tech
Now that Tesla has kicked Mobileye's image recognition tech to the curb, what is its former partner going to do? Run into someone else's arms, of course. Mobileye has revealed that it's teaming up with Delphi on a self-driving platform that automakers could quickly integrate into their own cars. It'll use Mobileye's image recognition and sensor processing, while Delphi will supply the autonomous driving algorithms and a controller for camera, lidar and radar. The two will also work together on "sensor fusion" tech as well as a "driving policy" that's better at understanding the quirks of human drivers.
Tesla parts ways with chipmaker behind its Autopilot system
In the wake of a fatal Tesla Model S Autopilot accident in Florida, the all-electric automaker has announced it is parting ways with Mobileye, the company behind the image recognition hardware that powers the semi-autonomous system. As Recode reports today, Tesla will most likely be moving forward by building its own computer vision chips in-house.
BMW partners with Intel to get autonomous cars on the road by 2021
BMW has already said it wants to get autonomous cars on the road by 2021, but the automaker doesn't have all the technological know-how to make that a reality. To get there, BMW today announced a partnership with Intel and computer vision / sensing company Mobileye to build a platform that'll help the company meet its goals. But what the three companies are working on won't just benefit BWM -- it sounds like the idea is to make an open industry platform that other car makers can use in an effort to make autonomous vehicles more widely available.
Tesla 'corrects' claim that anyone can make a self driving car
Tesla has never been shy about starting fights with publications that claim its technology isn't all that. This time the firm has windmilled into Bloomberg Business and George "geohot" Hotz, the engineer famous for being the first to hack the iPhone and PlayStation 3. Yesterday, Bloomberg published an interview that showed off Hotz's latest project, a self-driving car kit that can be retrofitted into existing vehicles. During the course of the piece, the inventor threw shade on Tesla's own autopilot hardware, which managed to raise the ire of company CEO Elon Musk.
