Safety and comfort features have been provided to the Zeekr 001 electric vehicle through an over-the-air update
Last week, Mobileye and Zeekr provided tens of thousands of Zeekr 001 electric car owners with an over-the-air (OTA) software update. The cars were pre-equipped with hardware, which includes seven cameras with a resolution of 8 megapixels, offering a 360⁰ field of view (this is in addition to four parking cameras), as well as two EyeQ5 High SoCs with 7 nm technology, which enabled extensive feature updates at the push of a button.
According to Mobileye CEO Amnon Shashua, this is not only about the future of driving assistance in terms of safety, but also a demonstration of how vehicles will acquire new capabilities through software developments, and all this is happening less than two years after we announced that Geely Auto Group chose the Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS) ) of Mobileye, Mobileye SuperVision, for Zeekr’s electric vehicles.”
Without calling it that, it appears from Prof. Shashua’s description that it is about increasing the autonomy of vehicles on highways.
A highway assistance system with characteristics more similar to human driving
“Those who follow the development of ADAS systems know that today most adaptive cruise control systems, highway assistance and similar systems designed to manage routine highway driving are designed based on one main input: the vehicle in front of you. However, when you think about how humans drive, and many everyday driving scenarios, it’s not enough to consider just the car in front. Human drivers consider everything going on around their vehicle before making a decision. A very common example is arriving at a traffic jam – the car in front may not have slowed down yet, but an alert driver will notice that the traffic in front has started to slow down or stop, and will make a smooth gradual stop.”
“The fact that the system is equipped with a high-resolution 360⁰ peripheral vision, made possible thanks to seven cameras with a resolution of 8 megapixels and four parking cameras, allows Mobileye’s algorithm to take into account the changing driving environment and react intelligently to larger amounts of data that are received and to objects that are not necessarily the closest vehicle in front . The decision-making process can take into account, for example, vehicles that are in front of the vehicle in front of it, or a vehicle that has stopped at the curb with an open door (which requires a slight lateral deviation), or even a pedestrian on the side of the road (which requires the car to slow down until it passes him).”
“Silicon and software are the new front at the heart of the design and planning, as well as the architecture and usability of the vehicle. The car companies will differentiate themselves not through horsepower, but through the quality of the software and the architectural design around it. What started as a small number of driver assistance features has evolved into the essence of the modern car. As over-the-air (OTA) updates become the norm, the speed of vehicle innovation will only increase. Consumers will now expect the latest and greatest through software updates, just as they expect from their smartphones. Thanks to the deep integration of our system, with Zeekr – which includes the SoC and ECU hardware, computer vision, advanced algorithms, integration and implementation of our decision-making system, new over-the-air updates will eventually become a matter of routine. Mobileye anticipates future updates, which will include the addition of high-resolution maps, which will allow the addition of additional unique cloud-based applications, including full Navigate-On-Pilot (a combination of autonomous driving and a navigation system that includes lane change), as well as other updates, including applications for driving on urban roads and capabilities parking.” Explains entertainment.
“To meet our goals with Zeekr, we have invested heavily in research and development, engineering design and testing in China. Progress was rapid, and in less than two years we were able to provide hardware, software and services – an achievement made possible by Mobileye’s responsibility for the full technology chain, from chip design to the integration of sensors and data, along with the applications that connect everything together. This is the beginning of a new era in the field of ADAS, and we are proud to collaborate with Zeekr in this breakthrough”. Prof. Shashua concludes.