BMW, Intel, Mobileye plan to test autonomous vehicles
BMW announced on Wednesday that a fleet of approximately 40 autonomous vehicles with systems from Israel’s Mobileye will be on the road by the second half of 2017.
BMW, Intel and Mobileye entered into a partnership last July under which the companies are working to develop a scalable system that can be adopted by other carmakers to pursue state-of-the-art autonomous designs.
“Making autonomous driving a reality for our customers is the shared ambition behind our cooperation with Intel and Mobileye,” said Klaus Fröhlich, a member of the board of management of BMW AG for development. “This partnership has all of the skills and talent necessary to overcome the enormous technological challenges ahead and commercialize self-driving vehicles.”
Under the partnership, BMW will be responsible for the driving control and car dynamics; Intel brings innovative high-performance computing elements that span from the vehicle to the data center; and Mobileye contributes its proprietary EyeQ®5 high-performance computer vision processor.
The EyeQ®5 is responsible for processing and interpretation of input from the 360-degree surround-view vision sensors as well as localization. EyeQ®5, in combination with Intel CPU technologies, forms the Central Computing Platform to be integrated into each autonomous vehicle.