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.
“We need the supercomputers, we need the 5G, the legal environment and cross-industry collaboration to prepare for the future,” Frickenstein said.
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It’s strange to claim fully automated driving by 2021, will all these needs still unmet in 2016. Back up 5 years and see how much progress is possible – not enough.
The need of the hour is an open system which allows various stakeholders to interact and utilize the data in a meaningful way, while maintaining security and privacy; and at the same time providing flexibility to each of the stakeholder to innovate and differentiate services.
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Closed V2X architectures have stumbled around for over a dozen years without results. The Open approach makes sense to invoke now.
Subsequent “waves” of autonomous driving are likely to include multiple-lane highway driving in 2018 and then the technology for autonomous driving in cities should be ready by 2020, he said.
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I think Ghosn may have insight into road infrastructure changes and legislation needed to implement SAE level 5 features by 2020.
GENIVI Alliance open source software architecture for infotainment includes a number of compliant solutions from automotive Tier 1s like Aisin, Continental, Delphi, Harman, Magneti Marelli, and Visteon
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143 Million car cockpits is a long runway for GENIVI. The OSS automotive world is legitimate for sure.
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