Chapter Mobileye announced the failure of Uber drone

28 March 2018

The Mobileye system is recognized in advance of the pedestrian do not even record with the recorder of Uber

The company Mobileye is one of the leaders in the development of intelligent safety systems and autopilots. It complexes until recently, were installed in the Tesla, and more simple electronic assistants long ago introduced on a regular production model. Chapter Mobileye shashua of Amnon (Amnon Shashua) in his blog published an article that criticized Uber.

It all started a week and a half ago, when the drone Uber death Belle. This case was the first in the history of testing vehicles with Autonomous control. Was later post with the Registrar of the car Uber, which confirmed the fears: the autopilot acted extremely unwise. And although the pedestrian is clearly violated traffic rules, correctly tuned automatics were supposed to notice it and to brake in time.

In the words of Amnon Shashua, specialists Mobileye "fed" published by the Arizona police video recording system ADAS (advanced driver assistance system). Even with the low video quality, the computer was able to advance to notice. According to the rulers of the Israeli company, the car was at least one second to commit any action. Perhaps this time would not be enough to stop the vehicle, however, at the moment of impact his speed would have been less than that with high probability it could save the life of 49-year-old Elaine Herzberg (Herzberg Elaine).

It is necessary to remember that unmanned Volvo XC90 is not only a front-facing camera, but also a whole set of advanced sensors, including lidar and ultrasonic radar. They are able to work in complete darkness (by and large, they do not care about the quality of lighting), so that the computer would need to "see" a pedestrian, even long before his silhouette appeared on the recording of the DVR.

Chapter Mobileye has criticized companies that do not have their years of research and development, but in a hurry to produce prototypes of its drones on public roads.