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Mobileye's eyes
Supplier: Mobileye
Component: Obstacle detection software, processors
Function: Identify vehicles, pedestrians, animals and other objects in the road
Description: The system consists of software, chips, cameras, lidar and radar.
Vision: Sensors and obstacle detection systems will be the “eyes” of self-driving vehicles.
Development: Jerusalem
Challenge: Mobileye needs crowd-sourced roadmaps using camera images uploaded from millions of vehicles.
Other r&d participants: Intel
Likely market appearance: Mobileye currently produces EyeQ3 for cameras. Higher-grade EyeQ4 and EyeQ5 will appear in 3 years.
As the auto industry wonders what Silicon Valley chip supplier might dominate the market for self-driving cars — giant Intel or colossal Nvidia — the answer may well be headquartered 7,400 miles east of Detroit.
