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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 11 2017, @12:44PM (3 children)
> substantially lower crash rate when in autonomous mode than they do when humans are driving,
Which humans? I've posted here before that I'm waiting until they match *my* accident demographics:
Don't drive impaired (removes ~40% of accidents off the top)
Don't have a cell phone (removing a major source of distraction)
Don't drive late at night when drunks are more likely on the road (4am closing around here)
Don't commute (work from home, mostly avoid heavy traffic)
Long experience (driving off-highway since age 5, currently 60)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 11 2017, @01:03PM (2 children)
60? Looks like you'll have to add cognitive and ocular decline to that demographics list soon.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 11 2017, @02:28PM (1 child)
> cognitive and ocular decline
Maybe in your family. My father had cataract surgery at ~80 and drove successfully into his 90s. Finally had a slightly-more-than fender bender (no injuries) at age ~95 and quit driving shortly after that. My mother is still driving (local trips, daylight only) at 88.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday August 11 2017, @03:05PM
Cognitive decline is said to begin in the mid-20s [plos.org] or at least the 40s [www.cbc.ca], resulting in worse reaction times. Ocular decline often begins early in life and certainly gets worse later on. Hearing loss begins in infancy and results in less frequencies perceived as you age. If you are going to list a bunch of positive factors, you might as well acknowledge the negative ones. Until anti-aging medicines/technologies are launched, we are definitely deteriorating meatbags that get worse at driving.
I don't know when or how driverless technologies are going to be proven better than human drivers, but the miles are accumulating, many companies and universities are working on this, and more states are beginning to allow driverless testing on public roads.
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