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Auto Part Suppliers Team Up for a Cheaper Self-Driving System
Mobileye and Delphi Automotive are developing a self-driving system that uses cheap sensors [bloomberg.com] and shuns LIDAR [wikipedia.org]:
Auto-parts suppliers Mobileye NV and Delphi Automotive Plc said they are teaming up to develop a low-cost system for self-driving vehicles that will be available to carmakers by the end of the decade. The companies are spending "hundreds of millions of dollars" to develop the system, which will be ready to sell by 2019, Kevin Clark, chief executive officer of U.K.-based Delphi, said in a conference call Tuesday.
Their technology will rely less on costly lidar sensors, which bounce light off objects to assess shape and location, resulting in a more affordable system for carmakers that might lack funding to develop the technology on their own, Amnon Shashua, chairman and chief technology officer of Israel-based Mobileye, said on the call. "Together, we're planning to build a new class of machine intelligence capable of mimicking true human driving capabilities," Shashua said. "Our alliance provides a solution with a much smaller investment to our customers" to deploy fully autonomous cars.
Meanwhile, DARPA is working on LIDAR-on-a-chip systems [ieee.org] that could be closer to $10 [nextbigfuture.com] than $1,000 to $70,000.
