Your current subscription does not provide access to this content. Those features are part of the vehicle’s Autopilot self-driving system, but the NTSB report doesn’t mention the system.
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It is likely that Tesla Motors will begin to create the technology that it sourced from Mobileye in-house, especially with the hiring of former AMD chip engineer Jim Keller to be the vice president of Autopilot.
“I think it’s been unequivocally a good thing”, Musk said.
Mobileye supplies camera-based advanced driver-assistance safety systems that help a vehicle steer or follow behind another auto or brake on its own.
Tesla only represented about one percent of revenue for Mobileye but the market fears that the confidence in the company may be shaken after the accident.
The company did not say when its current contract with Tesla will expire.
“There is much at stake here, to Mobileye’s reputation and to the industry at large”, Mobileye said in a statement.
“Mobileye’s work with Tesla will not extend beyond the EyeQ3”. The vehicle coasted off the highway, struck a utility pole and came to rest in the front yard of a private home, the report said.
Tesla said the Autopilot system, introduced a year ago, is not a fully autonomous system and that drivers are cautioned that they need to be at the wheel and in control.
Mobileye’s new EyeQ5 “system on chip” will be an important component in a fully autonomous driving system being jointly developed with BMW AG and Intel Corp and aimed at production in 2021.
Tesla took another hit June 30 when US highway safety regulators disclosed they were investigating the fatal May 7 crash involving Tesla’s Autopilot system, which takes partial control of steering and braking. When a driver turns on traffic-aware cruise control, he or she sets the speed. The NTSB’s report did not reveal whether or not the driver’s hands were on the wheel at the time of the accident.
Mobileye, the Israeli automatic driving company, will not develop new technologies for Tesla Motors-a development that seems related to the recent death of a driver whose Tesla Model S steered itself into the side of a truck.
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“Neither Autopilot nor the driver noticed the white side of the tractor-trailer against a brightly lit sky, so the brake was not applied”, Tesla said in a blog posting on June 30.
