Intel is extending its autonomous driving trials in Israel to provide an entire mobility-as-a-service offering across car, software, platform, mapping, and safety mechanisms.
Intel’s Mobileye is trialling autonomous vehicles on the streets of Jerusalem in a bid to test safety systems and navigation around heavy traffic and “aggressive” driving, Intel SVP and GM of Network Platforms Sandra Rivera told ZDNet.
Speaking with ZDNet at CES 2019 in Las Vegas, Rivera said Intel is working with the Israeli government to ensure a safer environment for autonomous vehicles through Mobileye’s open Responsibility-Sensitive Safety (RSS) software model.
“In Israel, one of the things that we’re doing… is how do we really provide the data to support the fact that these vehicles are safe,” she said.
“Then how do we also have the data to support the fact that in real city driving and congested areas and even some aggressive driving that happens in Jerusalem, that you can actually have a vehicle behave in the way that a person would, either in terms of merging in or anticipating cars that are trying to merge in ahead of you.”
Such driving decisions that humans take for granted are being implemented through advancements in artificial intelligence (AI), she told ZDNet.
“[With] more intelligence in the vehicle, you’re able to have a very natural and safe experience in autonomous vehicles,” Rivera said.
Mobileye’s cars can see around them with eight cameras providing long-range view and four cameras being used for parking.
“Cameras are the only real-time sensors for figuring out the drivable paths, and reading signs,” Intel explained.
Mobileye is next working on providing an entire “mobility-as-a-service” offering in Jerusalem, where the company provides the car, the software, the platform, the mapping, and all of the safety mechanisms.
“That’s a pilot that we’re doing there as well,” she said.
