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Mobileye to build real-time mapsDougherty & Company analyst Charles Anderson said in a note dated September 19 that his team hosted meetings with Mobileye management last week. One of the highlights was using cameras on ADAS vehicles to create real-time HD maps, which he says is the company’s main differentiation in autonomous driving.
Management explained that soon Mobileye would be in a unique position in the area of autonomous driving because it was working on finalizing agreements for its REM technology with Volkswagen, General Motors, BMW and Nissan. It seems Wednesday’s announcement about the WABCO adds another tier here.
According to Anderson, after Mobileye’s ADAS cameras are placed on vehicles, they will start collecting dadta about the roads and enable the company and its partners to build a real-time map in HD that can be used by autonomous vehicles. The company expects that by 2019 or 2020, it will have between 3 million and 4 million vehicles collecting data for these maps. Anderson particularly likes Volkswagen as a partner and suggests that it could serve as a model for other REM contracts. The reason is because the German automaker has a large 10% share of global auto sales per year and is part owner of the HERE mapmaker