On Wednesday, Intel announced a project with Mobileye to deploy at least 100 self-driving cars in the United States, Israel, and Europe starting in late 2017. This comes after Intel’s announcement back in March that it would acquire Mobileye, an Israel-based company which makes chips for vision technology for self-driving cars, for $15.3 billion.
“Our goal is to develop autonomous vehicle technology that can be deployed anywhere, which means we need to test and train the vehicles in varying locations,” said Amnon Shashua, who will be moving into dual positions as senior vice president of Intel Corporation and CEO/CTO of Mobileye.
Since the project focuses on demonstrating the versatility of Mobileye’s computer vision and mapping and Intel’s open compute platforms and 5G communication, it will be deployed on multiple car brands and models. The first models are likely to be BMW 7 Series vehicles, based on Intel’s previous statements.
BMW Group, Intel, and Mobileye announced that they would be working together on self-driving car projects back in July 2016.
