Auto giant Toyota Motor Corp has chosen Jerusalem-based Mobileye, along with German car parts maker ZF, to develop Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) for use in multiple vehicle platforms starting in the next few years.As part of the agreement, ZF, one of the world’s largest producers of automotive cameras driven by Mobileye technology, will also supply its Gen 21 mid-range radar and be responsible for the integration of camera and radar in Toyota vehicles.
ZF and Mobileye will collaborate to produce advanced camera technology integrated with ZF radar technology to power key advanced driver assistance platforms in Toyota vehicles. Mobileye’s EyeQ4, its most advanced vision computing system-on-a-chip, will be combined with ZF’s Gen 21 mid-range radar technology to help prevent and mitigate collisions while handling vehicle control.
Mobileye’s technology applies computational capabilities with computer vision algorithms while rapidly processing information from the vehicle’s front-facing camera to support complicated driving tasks, the company said.
Mobileye was acquired by Intel in 2017 for $15.3 billion in the largest Israeli acquisition ever, and has more than tripled in size and revenues since then. Intel recently said it will invest $400 million in upgrading its Jerusalem Mobileye offices into an R&D campus for developing self-driving car technologies.