Mobileye, which is well known for making vision based driver assistance software and chips would no longer supply its technology to Tesla Motors on account of May’s malignant autopilot crash. As the part of partnership, Mobileye has provided technology like EyeQ for Tesla’s Autopilot system, which enable the car to drive on its own in limited conditions.
Currently, it is EyeQ3 Mobileye system which is being featured in the Tesla’s ongoing Autopilot version, but Mobileye will not develop further EyeQ4 and EyeQ5 technologies for the autopilot system. As a result, Tesla S Sedan and Tesla X SUV will be the company’s last models to be run on this technology.
Earlier this year, the most highlighted headline in the newspapers was about the Tesla Model S crash, which resulted in a disaster. As the reports suggest, the car was running at an autopilot mode, but it failed to judge the trailer of a truck, which crossing in front of it and that resulted in a collision. Ever since then, the autopilot feature has come under the surveillance.
Mobileye’s chief communications officer, Dan Galves, said at the time, “We have read the account of what happened in this case. Today’s collision avoidance technology, or Automatic Emergency Braking (AEB) is defined as rear-end collision avoidance, and is designed specifically for that. This incident involved a laterally crossing vehicle, which current-generation AEB systems are not designed to actuate upon.”
Tesla’s response was, “Tesla’s autopilot system was designed in-house and uses a fusion of dozens of internally and externally developed component technologies to determine the proper course of action in a given scenario. Since January 2016, Autopilot activates automatic emergency braking in response to any interruption of the ground plane in the path of the vehicle that cross-checks against a consistent radar signature. In the case of this accident, the high, white side of the box truck, combined with a radar signature that would have looked very similar to an overhead sign, caused automatic braking not to fire.”
Going forward, Mobileye will continue its partnership with other automobile makers like General Motors, Audi and Ford, for which it produces collision prevention and driver assistance technology. Besides, Mobileye has also partnered with BMW and Intel to create iNext as well as to design BMW’s first ever fully autonomous car that will come into production by 2021.
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