Ford and Mobileye buddy up to help cars see the world better

The upcoming Ford vehicles will have better digital eyes thanks to Intel Mobileye. The automaker announced on Monday that it will include Mobileye’s EyeQ sensors in its software Co-Pilot360 Suite of active safety technology and driver assistance systems to make them even more intelligent.

The sensors directly support functions such as lane departure warning, automatic emergency braking and adaptive cruise control. Together with the sensors, Mobileye Ford will provide its vision processing software that can be integrated into future vehicles. Together we should see an intelligent suite of active safety equipment from Co-Pilot360.

The relationship is a pretty big step for both Ford and Mobileye. While the two have worked together in the past, Ford will commit to the company’s technology for the first time for an entire vehicle lifecycle. The technology is first in the 2021 Ford F-150 and the Mustang Mach-E. Additional vehicles will also house Mobileye technology, although the automaker hasn’t shared any additional details.

Ford could go further, adding that it is the technology company’s system called Roadbook. The software anonymously uses crowd sourcing data from vehicles to create high-resolution maps. Experts say that fully self-driving cars have to work autonomously. Today, vehicles can access the data to support driver assistance technology and even some partially automated technologies like the upcoming one from Ford Active driver assistant.

We’ll likely hear of a definitive roadbook decision in the near future, but for now the Mobileye name will appear in many new Fords as the Blue Oval delves into a richer technology.

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