In early January, BMW Group, Intel and Mobileye announced that a fleet of approximately 40 autonomous BMW vehicles will be on the roads by the second half of 2017, demonstrating the significant advancements made by the three companies towards fully autonomous driving.
Today, at an event in the heart of Silicon Valley, Intel and BMW announced the kick-off of their autonomous driving trial. The self-driving cars are built on the 7 Series platform and will included technology from Intel’s latest acquisition, Mobileye.
All the cars are expected to be on the road by the end of the year. All the vehicles will include multiple Mobileye cameras for road scanning.
As part of this partnership, the BMW Group will be responsible for driving control and dynamics, evaluation of overall functional safety including setting up a high performance simulation engine, overall component integration, production of prototypes and eventually scaling the platform via deployment partners.
Stay tuned for more details and photos!
[Source: Engadget]
Makes ZERO sense. Intel never follows through to fruition, and this is a pitiful cry to remain relevant as they fade away.
Mercedes is far ahead with the licensing of Uber’s technology, which has millions of miles of real life experience.
BMW – The Ultimate Driving Machine -> The Ultimate Self-Driving Machine = The Ultimate No-Driving Machine. Yea, I’m sure that’ll sell.
BMW will probably be the manufacturer to make cars that you enjoy to drive when you want to drive, and being able to drive itself when you want to sit back and relax.
I’m sure it will sell just fine. I’m not super thrilled about certain manufacturers ruining cars, and certain technologies ruining cars. But at least there’ll be some cars capable of being a driver’s car when you want it to be. At least more so than other boring cars.
BMW Offer my self to Test drive your Self drive models in So CA, SWM 62, Auto drive car fan since 80s.