BMW, Intel and computer vision firm Mobileye have signed a deal to develop autonomous vehicles.<\/p>\n
The three firms will collaborate on the systems needed to make cars that can navigate without any help from a human driver.<\/p>\n
The vehicles will be capable of driving safely along major roads as well as in suburban and inner city areas.<\/p>\n
BMW said it hoped the collaboration would mean it could put robot cars into production by 2021.<\/p>\n
The research partnership was announced on the day when US officials begin an investigation into a fatal car crash involving a Tesla Model S, to which self-driving technology could have contributed.<\/p>\n
BMW said the trio would develop computer and sensor systems that gradually reduce the part humans play in driving a car. Ultimately, it said, it hoped to produce vehicles that could operate entirely autonomously without any people onboard.<\/p>\n
Achieving this, said BMW, would make it possible for fleets of unmanned vehicles to operate safely. This, it added, could spur the creation of novel ride-sharing services in urban areas or lead to the creation of long-distance delivery services that employ robot-driven trucks.<\/p>\n
In a statement, the three firms said they were “convinced that automated driving technologies will make travel safer and easier”.<\/p>\n
They pledged to make the results of the research available to other car makers and electronics firms to help standardise technologies used in autonomous vehicles.<\/p>\n
Early work would focus on a “highly automated driving” prototype which BMW said it planned to demonstrate this year. More extensive tests of this technology across lots of vehicles were planned for 2017, it added.<\/p>\n
The autonomous car that emerges from the partnership would be likely to be electric and called the iNext, it said. Other vehicles in the i-range include the i8 hybrid and the i3 all-electric vehicle.<\/p>\n
Before now, BMW has shown off concept cars that use autonomous technology and it is already working with Baidu in China to produce a self-driving car suited to that market.<\/p>\n
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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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