Intel buying Mobileye for up to $16B to expand in self-driving tech
Yeah, they&#x27;re old school. They&#x27;ve got all sorts of deep industry partnerships and various driver assist and safety products. What they don&#x27;t have is a Level 4 autonomous driving OS. Nobody does, it doesn&#x27;t exist yet.<p>The whole 3 ring circus of chipmakers, OEM&#x27;s, and various component suppliers that stand to benefit from Autonomous vehicles is held aloft by a single tentpole that doesn&#x27;t actually exist yet. It&#x27;s just a twinkle in the eye of some AI genius who may very well still be an undergrad at the moment. Intel just spent 15 gigabucks assuaging their fear of missing out.<p>The field of AI and deep learning in particular is changing and progressing so fast that the experts of yesteryear are almost certainly not the people who will build the autonomous OS of the future. There will be a lot of misspent capital between now and the first safe, reliable, market ready, publicly accessible fully autonomous vehicle.