INTEL has developed a system it says ensures that self-driving vehicles can’t cause accidents when they are at fault, an effort to reassure a sceptical public and help speed adoption of driverless cars on the road.
The world’s largest chipmaker is publishing a set of standards, based on mathematical formulas that will govern the behaviour of robot cars and trucks. If they’re adopted, Intel argues, it will bring certainty to questions of liability and blame in the event of an accident.
“Any useful autonomous vehicle is going to be involved in accidents,” said Dan Galves a vice president at Mobileye, a maker of autonomous vehicle technology that Intel bought earlier this year. “One thing that is clear is that the public is going to be a lot less forgiving of accidents that are caused by machines.Intel is one of several component makers that see the increasing need for computing in vehicles, caused by the move toward autonomy, as a new growth market.
While car makers, their suppliers and companies such as Uber and Alphabet’s Waymo are conducting on-the-road tests, Intel and its rivals need the industry to move beyond trials and into production to get a return on the dollars they’re pouring into research and development.
Intel is trying to come up with a framework that will help prevent the potential chaos of putting machine-driven vehicles and those piloted by unpredictable humans on the road at the same time, a necessary step on the path to a future where steering wheels become obsolete
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