Mobileye and Delphi Automotive are developing a self-driving system that uses cheap sensors and shuns LIDAR:
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 that could be closer to $10 than $1,000 to $70,000.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 25 2016, @07:29AM
1. Slow down for cops.
2. Speed up and try to hit hippies.
3. Honk and whistle at women.
4. Scream at and scare young children.
(Score: 1) by WillR on Thursday August 25 2016, @02:00PM
6. Keep driving 10 over the limit on snow, that's why we have 4-wheel drive. Act surprised when we end up in the ditch.
7. If the rain/snow/fog is too dense for the sensors to see, turn on the high beams. That'll help!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 25 2016, @02:43PM
8. Care about your mobile communication, not about what happens on the road.
(Score: 3, Funny) by WizardFusion on Thursday August 25 2016, @04:35PM
9. If installed in a BMW, never use the turn-indicators
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 25 2016, @05:52PM
and have painfully-bright LED headlights
(Score: 3, Interesting) by MostCynical on Thursday August 25 2016, @08:15AM
"capable of mimicking true human driving capabilities"
So, basically,killing lots of people..
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-related_death_rate [wikipedia.org]
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday August 25 2016, @05:24PM
I thought Bender was a weird name for this system but it all makes sense now!