The investigation on the causes of the May tragedy that has cost the life of one Autopilot company Tesla Motors users of the system, has not yet been completed, but the first death in the history of "public test" active driver assistance systems have triggered the split between Tesla Motors and the Israeli company Mobileye , which until recently supplied the components for the system "autopilot" electric Tesla. This summer, the representatives of the developer, which controls 70% of the market and supplying its decisions 23 automakers, expressed its position as follows: policy Tesla Motors did not leave MobilEye opportunity to influence the behavior of the system under development, the automaker chose to receive only the components from the Israelis, but to use their own control algorithms .
Now, as Reuters explains resource representatives MobilEye called additional motives break with Tesla Motors. According to them, during the cooperation with the automaker last permanently out "beyond reasonable" in terms of security. Upsets representatives MobilEye and certain duality of Tesla Motors behavior. On one hand, the company is constantly improving the Autopilot function, providing electric cars more and more independence. On the other hand, Tesla Motors makes public statements about the importance of preserving the driver's control over the electric vehicle controls.
In the long term, creating the conditions for neglecting safety can have a negative impact on the market autopilot systems and the reputation of its members, so MobilEye tried to distance themselves from what is happening around Tesla Motors. The latter stated that in the future MobilEye components will be replaced by some proprietary solutions. Related Products :
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