Intel Editorial: What a Broken Ankle Taught Me about the Potential of Self-Driving Cars
February 09 2017 - 05:25PM
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Autonomous Cars Will Help Reinvent Mobility in the 21st
Century
The following is an opinion editorial provided by Kathy Winter,
vice president and general manager of the Automated Driving
Division at Intel Corporation:
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Kathy Winter is vice president and
general manager of the Automated Driving Division at Intel
Corporation. (Credit: Intel Corporation)
It’s no secret I’ve long been a champion for the autonomous
driving industry and the potential it has to reduce the number of
accidents and save lives. But a recent broken ankle – and more than
two months on crutches – brought that potential into focus as I
finally understood the daily struggle faced by millions of people
who suffer from limited mobility. As I hobbled across the
snow-covered parking lot at work, I imagined a car that could pick
me up at my doorstep, let me off at the office door, go park itself
while I went about my business, then return to take me home at the
end of the day.
Thankfully, I won’t have to imagine much longer. So much
progress has been made in recent months that we’ve gone from a
discussion of “if” self-driving cars are even possible, to “when”
and “how” we’re going to do it. The technology piece of it has been
resolved: Hundreds of self-driving test vehicles are proving their
capabilities on roads every day – and Intel powers the
decision-making brain in most of them.
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Now comes the harder part: when and how. We’ll definitely go
faster if we work together, and I think others are coming to
realize this. In an industry long known for proprietary
engineering, we are seeing many companies join forces in the race
to solutions. Our agreement with BMW and Mobileye to put
approximately 40 autonomous test cars on the road by the end of
2017 is a great example of how collaboration accelerates results.
Joint ownership of HERE between Audi, Daimler, BMW and now Intel
will further illustrate how the sharing of knowledge will move us
forward.
Getting past our test phase and into the mainstream will require
some kind of agreement on a few key standards. For example, we’ll
need a standard way to take advantage of the information collected
by all of those autonomous vehicles so that every OEM or supplier
doesn’t have to log and track their own data and create their own
driving models. Every autonomous car out there shouldn’t have to
find the same pothole and log it. Sharing some amount of base code
and data would allow cars to share this information with each other
easily and help answer the question of “how?”
As we ponder the “when” and “how,” it’s remarkable to think
about how quickly autonomous cars have been accepted into everyday
conversation. The stuff of science fiction just a few short years
ago, they’re now becoming a central figure in larger trend
discussions around smart mobility, smart cities, smart homes and
aging citizens. And a massive autonomous driving ecosystem has
sprung up almost overnight, with carmakers, suppliers, tech
companies, software vendors and more all vying for their role in
the self-driving car. What an exciting time it is to work in this
industry.
Although self-driving cars couldn’t arrive soon enough to help
me get around on my broken ankle, they’re coming fast. We’ve made
years of progress in just a few short months, and I see 2017 as a
year when collaboration and standardization will help us accelerate
even more. I’m thrilled to be on a team that is reinventing
mobility in the 21st century. What a ride it will be.
Kathy Winter is vice president and general manager of the
Automated Driving Division at Intel Corporation. She joined Intel
in 2016 from Delphi, where she engineered the first cross-country
drive of a fully autonomous vehicle. This is the first in an
occasional series of Intel newsroom editorials related to
autonomous driving. To comment or reach Kathy directly, email
autonomousdriving@intel.com.
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