Welcome to the AV team. So you've heard about autonomous cars...
What is an autonomous vehicle, anyway?
An autonomous car is a car that drives without a driver
I'm sure you know that already.
What we're going to do is... we'll understand what that means. How does the car do that?
What gives it the ability to drive without a driver?
Here, at Mobileye, we're working...
today, at least, our main car is the Ford Fusion.
So, why is Mobileye's main car today the Ford Fusion?
It's historical. From the point of controlling the AV, when we began developing the autonomous car...
They chose this car because...
they can control it easily.
There is a company called Dataspeed
They pay it lots of money, and it basically supplies the car with connectivity
It provides connectivity with the car's computer
And this way, control developers can basically send messages
and control the steering wheel, the gas pedal, the brakes, the lights...
and the like.
So, this is how we connect...
We have a few important things that allow us to drive fully autonomously.
The first major thing is sensors. Certain sensors.
Specifically, in this car, the Hector, we have camera sensors.
We have cars like Alfred that have LiDARs and RADAR...
LiDAR is basically a sensor that uses lasers,
and RADAR is a sensor that use radio waves.
What is this, basically? It works with frequencies
it means that it projects a laser beam, it gets reflected back,
and then it knows what the distance between it and other objects
and can make out its environment.
OK?
The first thing is sensors.
What's the second thing? The second thing is some kind of decision-maker
A component that decides whether to pass, to accelerate, to slow down...
and this is basically our "Policy".
We'll expand on each of these, respectively...
But for now, this is the second thing.
The third thing is HD mapping.
To drive fully autonomously, we need to drive in a place that is mapped
very accurately.
And we do this, as well, at Mobileye. In other words, the cameras themselves are Mobileye's,
the Policy is developed at Mobileye,
and the maps. The REM department produces maps in-house,
It's all a one-stop shop.
You come and get all of the products and components to drive fully autonomously.
To complete the picture, and understand how we do this...
This is Hector (the name of the car). We installed 12 cameras on the car.