BMW · Intel · Mobileye announces partnership aiming to "market automated driving car within 5 years"

Automotive manufacturer BMW set the goal of "marketing automatic driving cars by 2021", Intel, a leading semiconductor company, is a leading developer of image analysis software used for automatic driving technologyMobileyeAnnounced the alliance with. It will be the first case to clarify the marketing time of automatic driving car among automobile manufacturers.

BMW Group, Intel and Mobileye Team Up to Bring Fully Autonomous Driving to Streets by 2021
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BMW's CEO Halal Kruger (center) will hold a joint press conference on 1 July 2016, with Intel's CEO Brinda Krzanic (left), Chairman of Mobileye's Amnon Shashua in Munich, Germany, and will hold a 3-day conference with BMW · Intel · Mobileye 3 Announced that it will make a technical alliance in the development of automatic driving cars. We announced that it is planning to market an automatic driving car by 2021. In addition to BMW, a leading automaker and Semiconductor giant Intel, Mobileye, which provides image analysis technology related to automatic driving cars to Volkswagen, Nissan, Tesla Motors, etc. as well as BMW, It is a powerful tag between top manufacturers in each field.


According to BMW, the automatic driving technique currently under development is at "level 3" which is an auxiliary stage where it is not necessary to always direct the line of sight always in the traveling direction while traveling on the premise that the driver grips the steering wheel, "Level 4" at the stage where the driver does not need to perform driving work and change the interior of the car into a chat or reading space, and "Level 5" where the car can travel even if there is no human in the car, We plan to develop a platform for realizing automatic driving technology with three companies. Automatic driving technology developed by the technical cooperation of three companies will be offered to other automobile manufacturers and industries as well.

Specifically, it is planned to market an automatic driving car by 2021 by installing it on "iNEXT" which is being developed assuming the next generation EV of BMW, and within the year 2017 a group by an automatic driving car It is said that a running test is scheduled.


It is likely that the automated driving car platform developed by these three companies will be the industry standard because the top companies in the automotive, semiconductor and software fields alliance.