{"id":35314,"date":"2017-03-13T15:22:45","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T22:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/making-autonomous-car-play-intel-offers-15b-for-mobileye"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:09:23","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:09:23","slug":"making-autonomous-car-play-intel-offers-15b-for-mobileye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/making-autonomous-car-play-intel-offers-15b-for-mobileye","title":{"rendered":"Making autonomous car play, Intel offers $15B for Mobileye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/making-autonomous-car-play-intel-offers-15b-for-mobileye.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>DETROIT (AP) \u2014 Computer chip maker Intel paid handsomely for a piece of the next big thing Monday as it offered more than $15 billion for Mobileye, an Israeli company at the forefront of autonomous vehicle technology.<\/p>\n<p>The purchase, scheduled to close by year\u2019s end, creates another major player in self-driving technology as traditional automakers and tech companies vie to put the cars into public use. Most companies have predicted autonomous vehicles will be carrying people in the next three-to-five years.<\/p>\n<p>The big investment by Intel validates predictions that autonomous cars will someday come in large numbers, signifying a sea change in the way we all get around, said Timothy Carone, a Notre Dame University professor who has written about the future of automation. \u201cMajor players are finding ways finding ways to position themselves for a change as seminal as the personal computer revolution,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/d49e6a5ae42d4d6087a7de08318d3cd3\">https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/d49e6a5ae42d4d6087a7de08318d3cd3<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DETROIT (AP) \u2014 Computer chip maker Intel paid handsomely for a piece of the next big thing Monday as it offered more than $15 billion for Mobileye, an Israeli company at the forefront of autonomous vehicle technology. The purchase, scheduled to close by year\u2019s end, creates another major player in self-driving technology as traditional automakers [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35314"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58419,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35314\/revisions\/58419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}