Ford taps Intel Mobileye for smarter car vision and crowdsourced-cleverness

Ford and Intel have inked a deal to give future cars better vision, with Mobileye vision-sensing tech being used to power the automaker’s driver assistance systems. Mobileye EyeQ will be used for systems like Ford Co-Pilot360, including both hardware and software, and eventually form part of the technology behind Ford Active Drive Assist in 2021.

It’s a big win for Intel, which has been positioning Mobileye as its major play in ADAS tech for some time now. The chip-maker acquired Mobileye in early 2017, in a deal worth over $15 billion. However while much of the focus of tomorrow’s vehicles has been on fully-autonomous cars, the reality is that the market right now is still focused on driver-assistance, not driver-replacement.

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