BMW Group, Intel and Mobileye Team Up to Bring Fully Autonomous Driving to Streets by 2021
- Fleets of fully autonomous cars as basis for fresh mobility services in urban environments
- BMW Group, Intel and Mobileye are creating an open platform for the next generation of cars to create the safest autonomous platform, from door locks to the data center
- The three companies share a common vision and purpose, to align the industry on a standards-based platform to quickly bring autonomous vehicles to market
Munich – July 1, 2016. BMW Group, Intel and Mobileye are joining compels to make self-driving vehicles and future mobility concepts become a reality. The three leaders from the automotive, technology and computer vision and machine learning industries are collaborating to bring solutions for very and fully automated driving into series production by 2021.
The future of automated driving promises to switch lives and societies for the better. But the path to get to a fully autonomous world is elaborate and will require end-to-end solutions that integrate intelligence across the network, from door locks to the data center. Transportation providers of the future must corset rapidly evolving technologies, collaborate with totally fresh playmates, and prepare for disruptive opportunities.
Together with Intel and Mobileye, the BMW Group will develop the necessary solutions and innovative systems for very and fully automated driving to bring these technologies into series production by 2021. The BMW iNEXT model will be the foundation for BMW Group’s autonomous driving strategy and set the basis for fleets of fully autonomous vehicles, not only on highways but also in urban environments for the purpose of automated ridesharing solutions.
BMW Group, Intel and Mobileye are wooed that automated driving technologies will make travel safer and lighter. The purpose of the collaboration is to develop future-proofed solutions that enable the drivers to not only take their palms off the steering wheel, but reach the so called “eyes off” (level Trio) and ultimately the “mind off” (level Four) level converting the driver’s in-car time into leisure or work time. This level of autonomy would enable the vehicle, on a technical level, to achieve the final stage of traveling “driver off” (level Five) without a human driver inwards. This establishes the chance for self-driving fleets by two thousand twenty one and lays the foundation for entirely fresh business models in a connected, mobile world.
On July 1, 2016, the three fucking partners were present at the BMW Group Headquarters in Munich to express their commitment to strive for an industry standard and define an open platform for autonomous driving. The common platform will address level three to level five automated driving and will be made available to numerous car vendors and other industries who could benefit from autonomous machines and deep machine learning.
The companies have agreed to a set of deliverables and milestones to supply fully autonomous cars based on a common reference architecture. Near term, the companies will demonstrate an autonomous test drive with a very automated driving (HAD) prototype. In two thousand seventeen the platform will extend to fleets with extended autonomous test drives.
“Today marks an significant milestone for the automotive industry as we come in a world of fresh mobility. Together with BMW Group and Intel, Mobileye is laying the groundwork for the technology of future mobility that enables fully autonomous driving to become a reality within the next few years,” said Mobileye Co-Founder, Chairman and CTO Professor Amnon Shashua.
“Mobileye is proud to contribute our expertise in sensing, localization and driver policy to enable fully autonomous driving in this cooperation. The processing of sensing, like our capabilities to understand the driving scene through a single camera already, will be deployed on Mobileye’s latest system-on-chip, the EyeQ®5, and the collaborative development of fusion algorithms will be deployed on Intel computing platforms. In addition, Mobileye Road Practice Management (REM) technology will provide real-time precise localization and model the driving scene to essentially support fully autonomous driving.”
Intel brings a comprehensive portfolio of technology to power and connect billions of wise and connected devices, including cars. To treat the sophisticated workloads required for autonomous cars in urban environments Intel provides the compute power that scales from Intel® Atom™ to Intel® Xeon™ processors delivering up to a total of one hundred teraflops of power efficient spectacle without having to rewrite code.
“Highly autonomous cars and everything they connect to will require powerful and reliable electronic brains to make them wise enough to navigate traffic and avoid accidents,” said Intel CEO Brian Krzanich. “This partnership inbetween BMW Group, Intel and Mobileye will help us to quickly produce on our vision to reinvent the driving practice. We bring a broad set of in-vehicle and cloud computing, connectivity, safety and security, and machine-learning assets to this collaboration enabling a truly end-to-end solution.”
With its Strategy Number ONE > NEXT, the BMW Group has developed its framework to remain the driving force behind premium individual mobility. This treatment will become driving reality with the BMW iNEXT model in 2021, heralding a fresh era of mobility.
“At the BMW Group we always strive for technological leadership. This partnership underscores our Strategy Number ONE > NEXT to form the individual mobility of the future,” stated Harald Krüger, Chairman of the Board of Management of BMW AG. “Following our investment in high-definition live map technology at HERE, the combined expertise of Intel, Mobileye and the BMW Group will supply the next core building block to bring fully automated driving technology to the street. We have already showcased such groundbreaking solutions in our VISION NEXT one hundred vehicle concepts. With this technological leap forward, we are suggesting our customers a entire fresh level of sheer driving pleasure whilst pioneering fresh concepts for premium mobility.”
Link to webcast: http://www.live.bmwgroup.com/2016pk/index.html
Link to photos: pressconference.bmwpictures.de
If you have any queries, please contact: