Alliance between BMW, Intel and Mobileye to Make Driverless Car By 2021

With a milestone approach to enhance research and development in car industry, car maker BMW will increase partnerships with technology firms using ‘open technology standards, seeking to harness their expertise in areas including machine learning and mapping as they race against Silicon Valley companies such as Google, Tesla and Apple to develop driverless vehicles.’

The luxury car maker will therefore team up with Intel and Mobileye, to include technology of fully automated driving and install sophisticated cruise control system. Highly autonomous cars and everything they connect to will require powerful and reliable electronic brains to make them smart enough to navigate traffic and avoid accidents, said Intel Chief Executive Brian Krzanich on Friday following the alliance with BMW.

On Friday, the three giant organizations termed that the new technology is likely to make cars and vehicles those are ‘highly or fully automated’ by 2021 and introduce mass production. With sophisticated car control system already available to assist ‘hands off’ driving, but human help is also required.

Reports are that after ‘hands off’, BMW, along with Intel and Mobileye will develop the cars with ‘eyes off,’ ‘mind off,’ and ‘driver off.’ However, the initial planning has received few conflicting aspects. “That will be critical for advancing the safety aspects of this,” Krzanich pointed out.

Even BMW chief officials also agreed with the legal questions in case of any untimely situation like crash. “The accident is very sad....We believe today the technologies are not ready for series production. For the BMW group, safety comes first,” said BMW CEO Harald Krueger.

BMW, Intel and Mobileye will demonstrate their technological proposal in a pilot project soon.