Mobileye CEO Amnon Shashua image: Intel

Intel’s Mobileye has said it expects to begin a trial of self-driving cabs in Israel by next year. The company made this known to Bloomberg News on Sunday. Speaking to Bloomberg, Intel CEO Bob Swan said he rode a Mobileye self-driving car through Jerusalem traffic — with pedestrians crossing the streets — on Sunday. “The most impressive thing is to just to see how far they have come in each one of the successive drives that I have gone on over the last two years,” Swan said, noting that it was his third time riding in a self-driving car.

Last October, Mobileye in collaboration with Volkswagen and Champion Motor Group announced efforts towards commercializing a self-driving cab service. Intel CEO Swan said the plan is to launch a robo-cab service first in Israel — where Mobileye is based — before global expansion. Software development for the commercial robo-cab service is expected to be finished by the end of this year.

A Mobileye self-driving vehicle image: Intel

Intel acquired Mobileye for $15 billion in 2017, its second largest acquisition since inception. Mobileye was one of the first developers of computer vision systems that allowed vehicles to recognize obstacles. The Israeli company says it has more systems deployed on roads than its rivals, providing an edge in the pursuit toward fully driverless cars.

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