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Intel's Mobileye Will Launch a Fully Driverless Delivery Service in 2023 (theverge.com) 30

Posted by msmash from the future-promises dept.
Mobileye, the company that specializes in chips for vision-based autonomous vehicles, announced that it will launch a full-scale, fully driverless delivery service starting in 2023. The company, a subsidiary of Intel, is joining forces with self-driving delivery startup Udelv to run this new service. From a report: Deliveries will be made using a new type of cabin-less vehicle called The Transporter. While manufacturing plans are still in flux, Mobileye and Udelv say they will produce 35,000 Transporters between 2023-2028 -- a signal of their seriousness to launch a driverless delivery system at scale. "This is a real commercial deployment," Jack Weast, vice president of automated vehicle standards at Mobileye, told The Verge. "Thirty-five thousand units starting in 2023 that will fully integrate our self driving system for commercial use for automated goods delivery." Mobileye's turn-key self-driving system features a full-sensor suite of 13 cameras, three long-range LiDARs, six short-range LiDARs, and six radar. It also includes the Israeli company's EyeQ system-on-a-chip and a data crowdsourcing program called the Road Experience Management, or REM, which uses real-time data from Mobileye-equipped vehicles to build out a global 3D map.
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  • This is exactly what it has always been about - killing more jobs. No more driver, no more unloader - you'll need to unload your own freight . Here's the promotional video: https://youtu.be/RDVh_-SOg2s [youtu.be] Will lack of labor cost decrease delivery costs? Nope not one bit.. It’s about profit baby.
    Plus, I'll bet Vicky is just ecstatic to unload her own boxes. When items arrived damaged, how will you reject delivery?
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    • No worries, it'll be a huge failure, all of it outlawed when (not if but when) the shitty excuse for 'AI' screws up and kills people, destroys property in accidents that any human driver could have easily avoided.

      • No worries, it'll be a huge failure, all of it outlawed when (not if but when) the shitty excuse for 'AI' screws up and kills people, destroys property in accidents that any human driver could have easily avoided.

        Slow-moving local delivery bots are not going to kill people. The problem is that people will kill them. Gangs will learn to jump in front of them to cause a stop, whereupon the vehicle will be stripped clean.

        • Well, that too.
          Either way I have zero faith in any of this 'self driving' nonsense. I don't think it's going to be anything other than a bad joke in my lifetime.

    • Paradoxically, this technology is both a capitalist dream and a socialist dream.

  • They donâ(TM)t even have driver assistance to the point where they can prevent people from running stop signs and traffic lights. If they canâ(TM)t even act as a guardian to human driving errors how can it do autonomous delivery. Intel owns Mobileye, so this announcement seems like it is solely to stave off Intelâ(TM)s stock price fall now that nVidia is making ARM chips.

  • 13 cameras, three long-range LiDARs, six short-range LiDARs, and six radar

    That seems like serious overkill. Their primary competition uses a two-camera, two-microphone array on a gimbal with low-accuracy gyros for stabilization and orientation. Those cameras and microphones are prone to production defects, accumulated damage, and serious degradation with age, and are impractical to replace when they fail. The competition's driving logic tends to degrade seriously when running low on power, and becomes so

    • ROFL. Thanks, took me a few seconds there.

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by Entrope ( 68843 )

        Thanks. I cannot claim full credit -- I was riffing on an exchange in a recent Slashdot thread, I think about the video showing Tesla's Full Self Driving Beta driving around downtown Oakland, CA. Person X asked why the Tesla has cameras all over the place, compared to prior art doing just fine with a pair of eyeballs. Person Y replied that the gimbal mount added considerable flexibility to the single stereoscopic camera mount. I liked the description so much I borrowed it.

    • That's not overkill .. cameras don't have a high failure rate. Also, they can provide some redundancy if there is a failure. 13 cameras sounds like too little to me.

    • all the cams fed to authorities and possible surveillance is worth the investment by the secret services and police forces.

  • Mobileye is infringing on Tesla IP (Score:4, Funny)

    by edi_guy ( 2225738 ) on Monday April 12, 2021 @05:47PM (#61265934)

    No, not on the technology side, but on Teslas intellectual property around over-promising and under-delivering autonomous vehicle capabilities.

  • EyeQ is like ICQ without the "see"

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  • I was wondering how they would solve that. Turns out they didn't. I'm looking forward to being forced to install an "app" so I can be told to get dressed and walk my butt out into the snow to pick up my packages. Progress, amirite?

  • This schedule seems aggressive, but maybe just because this company is news to (a lot of us). Self-driving has been occupying headspace for years now, and seems perpetually behind schedule. But even if this prediction is off by half, fully autonomous vehicles four years from now would still be fairly exciting.

    Not to mention that, if there is any substance to this claim (it is Intel, after all), perhaps this will push some of the other major players (Cruise, Waymo) to get to market faster.

    • Mobileye [wikipedia.org] is not new. They have provided the tech behind the driving-assist technology in multiple makes of cars for over a decade, including originally doing Tesla's before Tesla dumped them in 2016. Of course, there's a big gap between driving-assist and full-self-driving and they may be over-promising like seems common in this space, but Mobileye isn't coming out of nowhere.

  • I bet these vehicles, for legal reasons, will be limited to five miles under the speed limit, and drive with all the style and grace of a 95-year-old grannie desperate to keep her licence. And they'll be on the roads at rush hour because corporations will demand it.

    Get ready to add a whole lot of time to your normal commute once these effing things get well established.

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
    Self-driving pizza delivery van as major plot trigger.

  • Do they have regulatory approval? Do the economics work when your only cost saving is not hiring a low wage driver, yet you have greatly increased the complexity and maintenance costs of the vehicle? How are they going to deal with the fact that maps don't always reflect reality (e.g., temporary road closures, parades, wild animals, wind blown junk)? Why are they announcing it two years in advance? That suggests it does not work now and may never work. Intel has continually abandoned projects over the

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