BMW plans to deliver driverless cars by 2021
BMW is teaming up with Intel and Mobileye to develop new technology for the auto industry that could put self-driving cars on the road by around 2021.
Harald Krüger, the chief executive of BMW, acknowledged yesterday’s fatal crash involving Tesla’s autopilot feature, and said that BMW would need “the next few years” to perfect its autonomous driving system.
Moibleye is an Israel based company that for the past twenty years has been developing camera sensors for the auto industry including Tesla’s Model S’ auto-pilot
Mobileye’s Chief Communications Officer Dan Galves released the following statement regarding the Tesla crash:
We have read the account of what happened in this case. Today’s collision avoidance technology, or Automatic Emergency Braking (AEB) is defined as rear-end collision avoidance, and is designed specifically for that. This incident involved a laterally crossing vehicle, which current-generation AEB systems are not designed to actuate upon. Mobileye systems will include Lateral Turn Across Path (LTAP) detection capabilities beginning in 2018, and the Euro NCAP safety ratings will include this beginning in 2020.