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Intel has completed its acquisition of Mobileye, and is planning to build a fleet of 100 "Level 4" autonomous vehicles:
Fresh off its acquisition of auto-visual company Mobileye, Intel announced today that it will build a fleet of Level 4, fully self-driving vehicles for testing in the US, Israel, and Europe. The first vehicles will hit the road later this year, and the fleet will eventually scale to more than 100 automobiles.
The cars will be Level 4 autonomous, meaning that they will be capable of handing most driving situations themselves, whereas Level 5 is largely theoretical and covers complete automation in any condition.
Intel announced plans to acquire Israel-based Mobileye for $15.3 billion back in March. That deal just closed on Tuesday, spurring the chipmaker to begin making aggressive moves in the emerging self-driving market that Intel itself predicted will come to be worth over $7 trillion. Intel previously said it will spend $250 million over the next two years on the development of autonomous vehicles.
Also at Intel Newsroom.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday August 11 2017, @11:19AM (1 child)
You'll need to add: "... under benign circumstances and with maintenance between two subsequent trips"
Even so, Volvo discovered its self driving cars are confused by kangaroos [theguardian.com] (and possibly other large animals moving fast/erratically).
Situations like:
- mud splash covering LIDAR or other circumstances debilitating their sensors were highly likely not tested. If I need to spend 15" every time "toileting" the car after I drive country side to clean them, thanks but not thanks, keep your autonomous car.
- rare but heavily unusual weather conditions - heavy rain, high crosswinds (can an autonomous car avoid tornadoes - have them been tested in those conditions?), temperatures like 50C+ [wikipedia.org] (you know how the road looks like in these conditions?)
- play of light on street signs [soylentnews.org]
- remote hacking [soylentnews.org] or other adversarial conditions being likely enough to trigger FBI warnings [soylentnews.org]
- long term reliability - the lights behind the HVAC/radio/etc (central board column) of my 15years VW started to flicker - an electrical contact most probable. I don't give a dam' (because I can afford to not give a damn - manual gearbox, no cruise control, the only "intelligent" part of that car is the ABS and power steering). Imagine the "autonomous brain" of a car being reset at full speed by an electrical fault.
- radio spectrum saturation due to car communications during rush hours
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 11 2017, @02:53PM
Feel free to go search youtube or whatever for 'Tesla autopilot in heavy rain' or whatever else. People are driving with it in conditions that it's still not technically ready for and it's doing phenomenally. Obviously weather conditions affecting the sensors has been heavily tested. They're extremely resilient. You're not going to have the car complaining from some dirt roads.
The other issues are getting increasingly esoteric. Adversarial attacks will definitely remain a concern but I don't see that as an issue in and of itself. Much like somebody doing things like removing a stop sign, disabling a stop light at an intersection, or whatever else could easily mislead and lead to potentially severe accidents between humans. You're never going to have a system that's 100% safe, but they're already safer than humans in many (most?) conditions and unlike humans they will constantly get better and safer over time.