Intel Editorial: Meet the Leader of Intel’s Silicon Valley Autonomous Vehicle Lab
July 06 2017 - 11:00AM
Business Wire
Patti Robb is Passionate about the Future of Autonomous Driving
and How It Will Make Traveling Safer
The following is an opinion editorial provided by Kathy Winter,
vice president and general manager of the Automated Driving
Solutions Division at Intel Corporation.
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Intel’s Kathy Winter, (from left) Doug
Davis and Patti Robb cut the entrance ribbon, officially opening
Intel’s Silicon Valley Center for Autonomous Driving in San Jose,
California, on May 3, 2017. (Credit: Intel Corporation)
In the past several months, I’ve shared my passion about
autonomous driving and the reasons why I think Intel will succeed
in this industry. I am fortunate to have a team of dedicated
professionals who are equally enthusiastic about this opportunity;
all organizational leaders should be so lucky.
Press Kit: Autonomous Driving at Intel
Patti Robb is a visionary technologist and the chief strategist
behind our Silicon Valley Autonomous Vehicle Lab working with
tier-one suppliers, carmakers, universities and startups to
accelerate delivery of autonomous driving solutions. Following our
recent Silicon Valley Autonomous Driving Workshop, I asked Patti to
describe some of the ways she sees Intel bringing autonomous
driving to life in the Valley and also to discuss her personal
passion for her work. The following is an edited transcript of that
conversation.
Describe your role and the mission of the Silicon Valley
lab.
Vincent Van Gogh said, “Great things are done by a series of
small things brought together.” That's a great way to summarize
what I do every day. Inside our garage lab we work with automakers,
tier-one suppliers, universities and startups to bring together all
of the aspects of our autonomous driving program from the car to
the network to the data center. I'm exceptionally proud of the
progress we have made so far, some of which was demonstrated at the
opening of Intel’s new Silicon Valley Innovation Center and
Autonomous Driving Garage.
Can you say more about the innovations coming out of your
lab?
From car to cloud, we’re applying diverse expertise spanning 5G
to artificial intelligence to software along with our proven
leadership in silicon design. We’re delivering flexible designs
with a combination of Intel CPUs, dedicated accelerators and FPGAs
for powerful in-vehicle computing. We’re investing in a scalable,
seamless 4G and 5G roadmap to enable things big and small with
next-generation low-latency connectivity reaching speeds in excess
of 10 Gbps. And we’re a driving force behind the development of
virtualized, software-defined networks that can be sliced to meet
99.999 percent SLA (service level availability) reliability.
We have other garage labs; what is unique about the Silicon
Valley lab?
Every one of our four garages has a unique strategy. In Silicon
Valley, we are using the lab to advance the ecosystem, which means
we have a number of collaboration projects with carmakers and
tier-one suppliers in the works to enable the industry to deliver
their solutions quickly. In the future, we will use the space for
demonstrations featuring interactive experiences with future
vehicles powered by Intel. Stay tuned for a time when this may be
opened to the public on a more regular basis.
For you, this cause is quite personal.
Sadly, yes. This past Christmas, my brother Jim passed away
following injuries sustained during an automobile accident. I will
remember my brother as a great father and brother, a kind person
who called his family every day, and a proud U.S. veteran who spent
his spare time helping other veterans.
Jim was one of the more than 40,000 people who died in traffic
accidents on U.S. roads last year, 93 percent of them caused by
human error. By taking humans out of the driver’s seat – and all of
the distractions and errors they bring with them – self-driving
cars offer real life-saving potential. The faster we can get those
cars on the roads, the more lives we can save.
What else motivates you?
Beyond their life-saving potential, I expect driverless cars to
bring many societal benefits. They will make people more productive
and transportation more efficient, more environmentally friendly,
more accessible to people of all ages and abilities, and more
enjoyable. Consider: Self-driving vehicles are expected to free
more than 250 million hours of individuals’ commuting time per year
in the most congested cities in the world. And we expect public
safety costs related to traffic accidents to drop significantly –
some $234 billion from 2035-2045.
Kathy Winter is vice president and general manager of the
Automated Driving Division at Intel Corporation. Together with the
group’s Director of Engineering Greg Scharenbroch, Kathy oversees a
growing nucleus of autonomous garage labs, including the newest one
in Silicon Valley. She joined Intel in 2016 from Delphi, where she
engineered the first cross-country drive of a fully autonomous
vehicle.
This is the fifth 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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