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BMW Group, Intel and Mobileye today announced that a fleet of approximately 40 autonomous BMW vehicles will be on the roads by the second half of 2017, demonstrating the significant advancements made by the three companies towards fully autonomous driving.
Revealing this at a podium discussion held during a joint press conference at CES, the companies further explained that the BMW 7 Series will employ cutting-edge Intel and Mobileye technologies during global trials.
This news follows the partnership that was announced between the BMW Group, Intel and Mobileye in July of last year. The companies have since developed a scalable architecture that can be adopted by other automotive developers and carmakers to pursue state of the art designs and create differentiated brands.
The offerings scale from individual key integrated modules to a complete end-toend solution providing a wide range of differentiated consumer experiences. “Making autonomous driving
a reality for our customers is the shared ambition behind our cooperation with Intel and Mobileye,” said said Klaus Fröhlich, a member of the board of management of BMW AG for development.
“This year our fleet of vehicles will already test this joint technology globally under real traffic conditions.” He described it as a ‘significant step’ towards the introduction of the BMW iNEXT in 2021, which will be the BMW Group’s first fully autonomous vehicle.
As part of this partnership, the BMW Group will be responsible for driving control and dynamics, evaluation of overall functional safety including setting up a high performance simulation engine, overall component integration, production of prototypes and eventually scaling the platform via deployment partners.
Intel brings to the partnership innovative high performance computing elements that span from the vehicle to the data centre. “The car to cloud system will perform with consistent, predictable behaviour and is validated to the highest level of safety,” claimed Intel CEO Brian Krzanich.
“That’s why this partnership is breaking new ground. We have established a dedicated team with clear, shared goals and a culture of innovation and agility and accountability.”
