A fully driverless full-scale delivery service will arrive in 2023 and will be built by Mobileye, a subsidiary of Intel specializing in the production of autonomous vehicle chips based on visual information captured by cameras. Mobileye is working with the startup Udelv to produce as many as 35.000 vehicles between 2023 and 2028 suitable for freight deliveries. They will take place using a new type of cab-less vehicle named The Transporter.
It is a real commercial distribution. Thirty-five thousand units starting in 2023 that will fully integrate our autonomous driving system for commercial use for the automated delivery of goods.
He said Jack Weast, vice president of Mobileye, who is closely following this great project. Mobileye's autonomous driving system comprises a suite consisting of sensors, 13 cameras, three LiDAR long range, you are short range LiDAR and you are radar. Also includes the EyeQ system-on-a-chip and a data crowdsourcing program called Road Experience Management, which builds a global 3D map thanks to real-time data generated by vehicles equipped with Mobileye. The same company is also testing autonomous vehicles for the eventual launch of a service robotaxi, which would be launched by 2025.
The design of our autonomous driving systems is based on the concept called real redundancy. Unlike other systems where LiDAR, radar and cameras have to work simultaneously, we use independent subsystems. If one of them cannot detect an obstacle, the others will. This will improve the experience and safety.
We do not yet know many details about the characteristics of the Transporters used by Mobileye for the driverless delivery service, but we do know that they will be compatible with the fast DC charging and will have a maximum speed of 65mph. The vehicles will be perfectly autonomous, but with a very low latency it will still be possible for operators to intervene remotely to solve any problems.
