Intel have opened their Advanced Vehicle Lab in Silicon Valley, in an effort to move the ideas of self-driving cars to reality. The Silicon Valley lab joins Intel’s other labs in Arizona, Germany, and Oregon to better understand the requirements of autonomous vehicles and the future of transportation including sensing, in-vehicle computing, artificial intelligence, connectivity, and cloud technologies and services.
| A testing platform inside Intel’s new Advanced Vehicle Lab |
Intel’s Autonomous Garage Labs will work with both customers and partners to discover new ways to get data inside the vehicle, across the network, and in the data centre. Intel says it will use different computer systems and sensors to help gather data, test real-world driving, and collaborate with teams on research efforts.
Some of the partners in the workshop include BMW, Delphi, Ericsson and HERE. BMW showed one of the first of about 40 automated vehicles that have lately been announced by BMW, Intel and Mobileye. Delphi provided rides in their fully autonomous vehicle, while Intel and Ericsson showed the progress being made toward 5G for autonomous driving.
Intel will use the lab to provide technical courses on autonomous driving data challenges and their impact on everything related to autonomous driving such as the autonomous car brain, data centre planning and design, network infrastructure, and artificial intelligence needed to process, understand, manage, move, share, store, and learn from the data.
