• The BMW Group, Intel, and Mobileye announce a fleet of
approximately 40 autonomous test vehicles that will be on the roads
by the second half of 2017
• The three companies reveal details about their partnering
model including a scalable architecture that can be used by other
auto developers
BMW Group, Intel and Mobileye today 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.
Revealing this at a podium discussion held during a joint press
conference at CES, the companies further explained that the BMW 7
Series will employ cutting-edge Intel and Mobileye technologies
during global trials starting in the U.S. and Europe.
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BMW engineer André Mueller tests
autonomous driving technology in a BMW autonomous test car.
(CREDIT: BMW Group)
This news follows the partnership that was announced between the
BMW Group, Intel and Mobileye in July of last year. The companies
have since developed a scalable architecture that can be adopted by
other automotive developers and carmakers to pursue state of the
art designs and create differentiated brands. The offerings scale
from individual key integrated modules to a complete end-to-end
solution providing a wide range of differentiated consumer
experiences.
"Making autonomous driving a reality for our customers is the
shared ambition behind our cooperation with Intel and Mobileye.
This partnership has all of the skills and talent necessary to
overcome the enormous technological challenges ahead and
commercialize self-driving vehicles. Therefore, we are already
thinking in terms of scalability and welcome other companies –
manufacturers, suppliers or technology companies – to participate
and contribute to our autonomous platform. This year our fleet of
vehicles will already test this joint technology globally under
real traffic conditions. This is a significant step towards the
introduction of the BMW iNEXT in 2021, which will be the BMW
Group’s first fully autonomous vehicle,” stated Klaus Fr�hlich,
Member of the Board of Management of BMW AG for
Development.
“From an industry perspective, we are already seeing savings and
speed in development by sharing development costs and in pooling
resources to develop a complete autonomous platform. The car to
cloud system will perform with consistent, predictable behavior and
is validated to the highest level of safety,” said Intel CEO
Brian Krzanich. “That’s why this partnership is breaking new
ground. We have established a dedicated team with clear, shared
goals and a culture of innovation and agility and
accountability.”
“Over the last six months, we have made very good progress in
designing a state-of-the-art solution for autonomous driving on
both highways and in urban areas. The solution has been defined in
a scalable manner to allow affiliate automakers to meet their
unique needs,” said Mobileye Co-Founder, Chairman and CTO
Professor Amnon Shashua.
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.
Intel brings to the partnership innovative high performance
computing elements that span from the vehicle to the data center.
The newly launched Intel® GO™ solution for autonomous driving
offers world class processor and FPGA technologies for the most
efficient balance of performance and power, while meeting the
stringent thermal and safety requirements of the automotive
industry. Within the car, the Intel GO solution offers a scalable
development and compute platform for critical functions including
sensor fusion, driving policy, environment modeling, path planning
and decision making. In the data center, Intel GO offers a wide
range of technologies ranging from the high performance Intel®
Xeon® processors, to Intel® Arria® 10 FPGAs and Intel® Solid State
Drives to the Intel® Nervana™ platform for artificial intelligence
that provides a powerful machine and deep learning training and
simulation infrastructure required for the autonomous driving
industry.
Mobileye contributes its proprietary EyeQ®5 high-performance
computer vision processor offering automotive-grade functional
safety and low-power performance. 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 and FPGA technologies, forms the Central Computing
Platform to be integrated into each autonomous vehicle.
Mobileye will further collaborate with the BMW Group to develop
the sensor fusion solution, creating a full model of the
environment surrounding the vehicle, using input from vision,
radar, and lidar sensors. As well as establishing a driving policy,
including Mobileye’s reinforcement learning algorithms used to
endow the vehicle system with the artificial intelligence required
to safely negotiate complex driving situations.
To further propel the development of the autonomous platform,
the partnership plans to release hardware samples and software
updates in the upcoming years. The BMW iNEXT model, which will be
introduced in 2021, will be the foundation for BMW Group’s
autonomous driving strategy. Following this vehicle, a range of
highly automated models from all BMW Group brands will follow.
Link to live streaming of the joint press conference will be
available on Facebook and on the BMW Group website:
http://www.live.bmwgroup.com. This will be available as replay as
well.
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About BMW Group
With its three brands BMW, MINI and Rolls-Royce, the BMW Group
is the world’s leading premium manufacturer of automobiles and
motorcycles and also provides premium financial and mobility
services. As a global company, the BMW Group operates 31 production
and assembly facilities in 14 countries and has a global sales
network in more than 140 countries.
In 2015, the BMW Group sold approximately 2.247 million cars and
nearly 137,000 motorcycles worldwide. The profit before tax for the
financial year 2015 was approximately € 9.22 billion on revenues
amounting to € 92.18 billion. As of 31 December 2015, the BMW Group
had a workforce of 122,244 employees.
The success of the BMW Group has always been based on long-term
thinking and responsible action. The company has therefore
established ecological and social sustainability throughout the
value chain, comprehensive product responsibility and a clear
commitment to conserving resources as an integral part of its
strategy.
About Intel
Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) expands the boundaries of technology to make
the most amazing experiences possible. Information about Intel can
be found at newsroom.intel.com and intel.com.
About Mobileye
Mobileye N.V. is the global leader in the development of
computer vision and machine learning, data analysis, localization
and mapping for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems and autonomous
driving. Our technology keeps passengers safer on the roads,
reduces the risks of traffic accidents, saves lives and has the
potential to revolutionize the driving experience by enabling
autonomous driving. Our proprietary software algorithms and EyeQ®
chips perform detailed interpretations of the visual field in order
to anticipate possible collisions with other vehicles, pedestrians,
cyclists, animals, debris and other obstacles. Mobileye's products
are also able to detect roadway markings such as lanes, road
boundaries, barriers and similar items; identify and read traffic
signs, directional signs and traffic lights; create a RoadBook™ of
localized drivable paths and visual landmarks using REM™; and
provide mapping for autonomous driving. Our products are or will be
integrated into car models from more than 25 global automakers. Our
products are also available in the aftermarket.
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