14 Facts About Mobileye

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Mobileye is a company developing autonomous driving technologies and advanced driver-assistance systems including cameras, computer chips and software.

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Mobileye is based in Jerusalem, Israel, and has sales and marketing offices in Midtown, Manhattan, US; Shanghai, China; Tokyo, Japan, and Dusseldorf, Germany.

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Mobileye was founded in 1999 by Hebrew University professor Amnon Shashua when he evolved his academic research into a vision system which could detect vehicles using a camera and software algorithms on a processor.

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Mobileye established its first research center in 2004, and launched the first generation EyeQ1 processor four years later, in 2008.

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Mobileye went public on the New York Stock Exchange in 2014.

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In 2017, Mobileye unveiled a mathematical model for safe self-driving cars based on a research paper by CEO Amnon Shashua and VP of Technology Shai Shalev-Shwartz.

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Mobileye began “robotaxi” trials with NIO electric vehicles in Israel in May 2020 due to a delay in the arrival of Volkswagen minivans, and unveiled its new production-ready robotaxi in 2021 at the IAA Mobility show in Munich.

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Mobileye demonstrated an autonomous car equipped only with cameras on the streets of Jerusalem in January 2020, later testing the cars in Munich and New York City.

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Mobileye launched multiple series productions for LDW on GM Cadillac STS and DTS vehicles, and on BMW 5 and 6 Series vehicles.

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In early 2017, Mobileye announced a partnership with BMW to integrate Mobileye technology into vehicles going to market in 2018.

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In 2018, Mobileye announced partnerships with BMW, Nissan and Volkswagen.

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Also in 2020, Mobileye announced a partnership with WILLER29 to launch a robotaxi service in Japan, Taiwan and Southeast Asia and with Geely for ADAS.

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Mobileye issued a statement that its systems were not designed to recognize a “lateral turn across path” and would not have those capabilities until 2018.

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Mobileye Drive was first fitted to vehicles used for driverless, ride-hailing services in 2021, with plans for public testing in Germany and Israel in 2022.

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