Israel’s Mobileye has partnered with BMW and Intel to develop a fleet of about 40 autonomous BMW cars will be on the roads by the second half of 2017, accoridng to The Times of Israel newspaper.
The partnership will use the BMW 7 Series equipped with “cutting-edge” Intel and Mobileye technologies during global trials starting in the U.S. and Europe, the companies said.
The companies have developed what they define a “scalable architecture” for autonomous driving that can be also used by other carmakers for their own brands. This offering to other manufacturers will range from individual integrated modules to complete end-to-end solutions, the companies said in a statement.
This year, a BMW fleet of vehicles will already test this joint technology globally under real traffic conditions, which BMW says is a significant step towards the introduction of the BMW iNEXT in 2021, which will be the BMW Group’s first fully autonomous vehicle.
As part of the partnership, the BMW Group will be responsible for driving control and dynamics, evaluation of overall functional safety of the cars; Intel brings to the partnership the high performance computing elements that span from the vehicle to the data center; while Mobileye contributes its high-performance computer vision processors.
According to The Times of Israel article, Mobileye will further collaborate with the BMW Group to develop additional sensors, as well as establishing driving policies and using Mobileye’s reinforcement learning algorithms, to provide the vehicles with the artificial intelligence required to safely negotiate complex driving situations, the companies said.
There are 30 corporate groups globally, ranging from the automotive industry to leading technology brands — including Google, Daimler, and General Motors — that are conducting research and development activities for autonomous vehicle, according to CB Insights, a New York-based data company.
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