[QUOTE]In a conference call discussing its second quarter financial results today, Mobileye confirmed that it will end its partnership with Tesla for the development of the Autopilot program. Tesla’s Autopilot system was designed in-house by the automaker and uses several different components, but Mobileye was an important partner supplying its EyeQ chip which processes the information from the Autopilot sensor’s suite.
The reason for the two companies parting ways is not entirely clear at this point, but based on Mobileye CTO Amnon Shashua’s comments, it might have something to do with the aftermath of the fatal Autopilot accident in a Model S, which first surfaced a few weeks ago.
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[QUOTE="Elon Musk"]This was expected and will not have any material effect on our plans. MobilEye’s ability to evolve its technology is unfortunately negatively affected by having to support hundreds of models from legacy auto companies, resulting in a very high engineering drag coefficient. Tesla is laser-focused on achieving full self-driving capability on one integrated platform with an order of magnitude greater safety than the average manually driven car[/QUOTE]
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It sounds more like tesla wanted a custom chip and they couldn't get it from them. The whole autopilot death is totally overblown. In the millions of miles and thousands of hours these cars have logged, having 1 person dead as a direct result of autopilot is pretty amazing.
[QUOTE=Sableye;50779259]It sounds more like tesla wanted a custom chip and they couldn't get it from them. The whole autopilot death is totally overblown. In the millions of miles and thousands of hours these cars have logged, having 1 person dead as a direct result of autopilot is pretty amazing.[/QUOTE]
Agreed. Musk isn't dumb enough to think that reducing the probability of a car crash by 99.9% isn't a massive feat. This is probably over something far less dramatic.
[QUOTE=Sableye;50779259]It sounds more like tesla wanted a custom chip and they couldn't get it from them. The whole autopilot death is totally overblown. In the millions of miles and thousands of hours these cars have logged, having 1 person dead as a direct result of autopilot is pretty amazing.[/QUOTE]
Tesla have probably been working on their own chip for sometime. They poached a good chunk of the senior AMD engineers at the start of the year.
Just a knee jerk reaction by everyone.
[QUOTE=Morgen;50779422]Tesla have probably been working on their own chip for sometime. They poached a good chunk of the senior AMD engineers at the start of the year.[/QUOTE]
Yep. Among them is Jim Keller, who designed AMD's Athlon and upcoming Zen architecture and also Apple's A5/A6 SoC
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