Tesla and the Israeli company Mobileye Cooperation, according to the official version, collapsed due to disagreements over the degree of involvement of the parties in the creation of "autopilot" system for a US manufacturer of electric vehicles. According to the unofficial version, "a catalyst for the break in relations" was the incident with the death of an American driver in May last year.
All of these events do not interfere MobilEye remain popular supplier of microprocessors and an active camera for car driver assistance systems. Israeli developers are collaborating with BMW and Intel in the creation of "autopilot". According to Reuters resource this week BMW said that in 2018 will be used to install on their MobilEye camera cars to collect the information needed to update the digital maps. The third party will experiment mapping service, which has a stake not only the BMW, and Audi / Volkswagen. Last carmaker also said it will cooperate with MobilEye in the creation of the navigation software. Toyota at the time also offered the use of the camera traveling about on the roads of cars to update digital maps on the scale of time, near-real.
The Bavarian automaker in the second half of the year will lead to the road of not less than 40 prototype vehicles with an automatic control system. BMW is already using elements of "autopilot" in their series flagship models. Apparently, the automaker prefers to introduce more advanced driver assistance systems in stages.