Intel opened its Advanced Vehicle Lab in Silicon Valley. The announcement was made during the company’s first Autonomous Driving Workshop held in San Jose, California. The company’s Silicon Valley Lab joins Intel’s other labs in Arizona, Germany and Oregon. At the event participants went for rides in the Dephi’s self driving vehicle, saw the new BMW Mobileye Intel self-driving car, learned about 5G and participated in tech workshops.
They labs were created specifically to explore and better understand the various requirements related to self-driving vehicles and the future of transportation, including sensing, in-vehicle computing, artificial intelligence (AI), connectivity, and supporting cloud technologies and services.
Intel’s Autonomous Garage Labs work with customers and partners to come up with new ways of addressing the data challenge inside the vehicle, across the network and in the data center. Engineers at the labs use a variety of tools to advance and test in these areas, including vehicles equipped with Intel-based computing systems and different kinds of sensors that help gather data; autonomous test vehicles that practice real-world driving; partner vehicles and teams that are collaborating with Intel’s research efforts; and dedicated autonomous driving data centers.
The workshop was the first time Intel – together with BMW, Delphi, Ericsson and HERE – presented the whole of its autonomous driving program. A combination of demonstrations and tech talks were used to dissect the data-driven journey and explain why Senior Vice President Doug Davis believes Intel is the leading technology company capable of addressing the data challenge in its entirety and is the reason he postponed his retirement.
The theme of the day was “the data-driven journey” and featured demonstrations and “chalk talks” that helped explain the autonomous driving data challenge from car-to-cloud. Highlights Included:
- BMW showed one of the first of approximately 40 highly automated vehicles that were announced by BMW, Intel and Mobileye earlier this year.
- Delphi provided rides in its fully autonomous vehicle throughout the day, giving journalists the opportunity to experience an Intel-powered autonomous road trip first-hand.
- Intel and Ericsson showed progress toward 5G for autonomous driving with a live, over-the-air demonstration of data moving across a 5G network between the car and the cloud.
- Intel executives provided technical courses on the autonomous driving data challenge and its impact on everything related to autonomous driving, including the design of an autonomous car brain; data center planning and design; network infrastructure: and the artificial intelligence needed to process, understand, manage, move, share, store and learn from the data.