Bloomberg is reporting that Uber disabled the standard collision-avoidance technology in the self-driving Volvo SUV that hit and killed a woman in Arizona last week. Aptiv Plc, the company that supplies the radar and camera for the Volvo system states “We don’t want people to be confused or think it was a failure of the technology that we supply for Volvo, because that’s not the case.”
Intel Corp.'s Mobileye provides sensors and chips for Aptiv's collision avoidance system stated that despite the poor second-hand quality of the video of the accident, tests on their software using the video said it was able to detect the pedestrian one second before impact.
“The video released by the police seems to demonstrate that even the most basic building block of an autonomous vehicle system, the ability to detect and classify objects, is a challenging task,” Mobileye Chief Executive Officer Amnon Shashua wrote on Intel’s website. “It is this same technology that is required, before tackling even tougher challenges, as a foundational element of fully autonomous vehicles of the future.”
Intel Corp.'s Mobileye provides sensors and chips for Aptiv's collision avoidance system stated that despite the poor second-hand quality of the video of the accident, tests on their software using the video said it was able to detect the pedestrian one second before impact.
“The video released by the police seems to demonstrate that even the most basic building block of an autonomous vehicle system, the ability to detect and classify objects, is a challenging task,” Mobileye Chief Executive Officer Amnon Shashua wrote on Intel’s website. “It is this same technology that is required, before tackling even tougher challenges, as a foundational element of fully autonomous vehicles of the future.”