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Weekly Brief: Intel plan to test driverless kit to suit any vehicle
Posted Mon, 2017 – 08 – 14
Also in the news this week are Toyota, General Motors, Cruise, Maven Gig, Lyft and Hyundai Mobis.
Another titan of Silicon Valley is getting serious with self-driving cars. Andrew Tolve reports.
With its newly minted $15.3Bn (£11.75Bn) acquisition of Mobileye in hand, Intel announced last week that it's building a fleet of fully autonomous (Level 4 SAE) vehicles for testing in the US, Israel and Europe. The first vehicles will be deployed later this year in Arizona, where Waymo and Uber self-driving cars are already being piloted and the fleet will scale to more than 100 vehicles in the coming year.
Intel's end goal is to develop an agnostic autonomous vehicle technology that can be deployed no matter a vehicle's geographic location, brand or body type. To that end, Intel's initial fleet will include multiple car brands and vehicle types, all built around a core “car-to-cloud” system that combines Mobileye's computer vision, sensing, fusion and mapping competencies with Intel’s expertise in open compute platforms, data centre technologies and 5G communication.
Intel didn't stop there. The company also teamed up last week with Toyota, DENSO, Ericsson and NTT to create the Automotive Edge Computing Consortium, an alliance for automotive big data. The companies plan to work together to create better ways to handle the massive data volume that connected and self-driving cars are starting to generate. The consortium plans to create new network designs and develop best practices in the hopes of making better maps with real-time data and better advanced driver assistance systems. The consortium plans to add more partners in the coming months.
In other news, General Motor's self-driving car start-up Cruise has launched an autonomous ride-hailing service in San Francisco called Cruise Anywhere. The service has been active for a month already but is operating in a stealth beta mode with its only riders being Cruise employees. Cruise Anywhere is much like Uber or Lyft; it connects riders with available rides via a smartphone app and taxis them to their desired destination. The vehicles in the pilot are Chevy Bolt EVs souped-up with self-driving sensors.