Hardware & Software
Mobileye
month. The two companies demonstrated an autonomous Audi kitted out with ADAS at CES 2017, and have announced that they will bring a Level 4 self-driving system to market in 2019. Late last year, Mobileye demonstrated an autonomous
Mobileye is a long-standing Israeli tech firm that
Audi that could change lanes, break automatically
develops advanced driver assistance systems
and avoid other road users. The latest automaker
(ADAS). The company is viewed by fellow software
to look to Mobileye is luxury EV manufacturer
developers as tough competition, and it’s not
Lucid Motors. Lucid will receive LiDAR, radar and
hard to see why. Mobileye is the largest supplier
cameras from the tech company, as well as Road
of camera-based ADAS and has been working
Experience Management, learning algorithms and
with BMW and Intel since the summer of 2016 to
localisation services. Despite the lack of a launch
bring out consumer-ready autonomous vehicles by
date, Lucid is already accepting pre-orders for its
2021. Mobileye also teamed up with Tesla Motors
driverless model. Hopefully the deal will be more
to provide EyeQ3 chips to power Tesla’s infamous
successful than the one with Tesla – but even if it
autopilot. However, the software supplier called
isn’t, it doesn’t sound as if Mobileye will be short of
off the partnership last year due to concerns
options.
that Tesla was using Mobileye technology for the wrong applications – which could have potentially contributed to the recent death of a test driver. Without skipping a beat, the company then made links with U.K. automaker Delphi in the following
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