ABI Research expects that semi-autonomous systems will continue to dominate the market over the next decade, with SAE level 2 and 3 systems accounting for 86% of autonomous vehicles shipping in 2026.
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Industry secret: a few exotic cars shipping in 2021 with full SAE automation level 4/5 will drive millions of option upgrades for safety features that provide 80% of the benefit at 20% of the cost for the rest of us.
I’m probably first on my block to get Apple CarPlay, in a Mazda for that matter
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It’s nice to be first at something.
“Give the man one white chip.” The message: $250 million is chump change
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Intel Capital may spend the $250M spread over next 5 years, so they deserve one small poker chip per year I suppose.
Toyota’s digital platform runs on Automotive Grade Linux, a mission-spec operating system jointly developed by automakers and suppliers around the world in open-source fashion.
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There are now only two primary Connected Car platforms, Linux and everyone else.
They develop a common hardware/software platform, based on Linux. The cloud services are provided by Microsoft via Azure
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Linux is the only way to maintain “autonomy” in services, not only for self-driving cars of the future, but for real cars of today.
“We now have found that the development pace and the ideas of the two companies are a little different,” Kastner said, without specifying the exact point of disagreement.
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Many have noted how hard it is to work with BMW on joint projects, especially when the progress for the partner exceeds that of BMWs. Time to switch in another partner (and their new money) when that happens, in order to slow down the project results.
Take a ride in a Tesla with Full Self-Driving Hardware.
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Exceptionally well presented full level 4 with the driver doing nothing until he gets out of the car on Tesla private roads and lets the car parallel park itself amidst many pedestrian obstacles. Playback at 3x normal speed makes the runners more fun to watch as the car slows automatically for them.
Intel Capital announced this week that it is investing an additional $250-million over the next two years specifically addressing the development of autonomous driving.
Almost seems small in the context of four terabytes.
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Yes, in this exaggerated context the numbers for investment are very small. Especially since Intel Capital takes many years to invest in anything related to these kinds of announcements (hype). They spent almost none of the prior $100M Connected Car fund established at least 5 years ago it seems.
The company’s top priority is to help motorists drive safely, rather than replace them
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Drivers are the ones who buy most cars so this makes sense to me.
The impact of the acquisition on OEMs and other suppliers depends very much on whether Samsung has acquired HARMAN as a Tier-2 supplier moving up the automotive supply chain, or as a CE player moving across into the automotive industry
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This amazing market share chart is a bit distorted, it seems to show only the number of designs and customers, not the total size of their business. When I add up the sales, Panasonic is #1 followed by Harman only by a hair.
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