Mobileye, Delphi Partner on Automated Driving Solution Due in 2019

Mobileye and Delphi Automotive extended their collaboration to develop what they said will be the first turnkey Society of Automotive Engineers Level 4/5 automated driving system. The companies will demonstrate the technology at CES in urban and highway driving, they said in a Tuesday announcement. The program will result in an “end-to-end production-intent fully automated vehicle solution” by 2019 for customers worldwide, said the companies. Mobileye will provide computer vision systems, mapping, localization and machine learning, and Delphi will supply driving software, sensors and systems integration, they said. Teams from both companies will develop the next generation of sensor fusion technology and the next-generation human-like "driving policy," they said. The module combines Ottomatika's driving behavior modeling with Mobileye's reinforcement learning to produce driving capabilities necessary for negotiating with other human drivers and pedestrians in complex urban scenes, they said. Building on an advanced driver assistance systems relationship that began in 2002, the most recent partnership "will accelerate the time to market and enable customers to adopt Level 4/5 automation without the need for huge capital investments,” said Mobileye Chief Technology Officer Amnon Shashua.