article_snippet.sent: Drive was used by Delphi engineers to research and collect information that will help further advance active safety technology
article_snippet.sent: – the most rapidly growing technology sector of the auto industry.
article_snippet.sent: The knowledge obtained from this trip will help optimize our existing active safety products and accelerate our future product development, which will allow us to deliver unsurpassed automotive grade technologies to us customers.'
article_snippet.sent: The firm also wants to test and demonstrate The firm active safety systems, which are being developed with such suppliers as Mobileye NV, an Israeli maker of computer vision and collision avoidance systems, and software provider Ottomatika, a spinout from Carnegie Mellon University's self-driving car program.
article_snippet.sent: All of those systems are expected to be introduced in production cars over the next two to three years.
article_snippet.sent: Although automakers and suppliers will have such capability within the next five years, Jeff Owens said, 'our view is that the driver is going to be in the seat for a long time' in case of emergency situations that self-driving systems may not be equipped or programmed to handle.
article_snippet.sent: All of those systems are expected to be introduced in production cars over the next two to three years.
article_snippet.sent: Fully automated systems that may be phased in after 2020 could add about $5,000 to the cost of a car, estimates Glen De Vos, vice president of advanced and product engineering for Delphi's electronics and safety division.
article_snippet.sent: This drive will help us collect invaluable data in us quest to deliver the best automotive grade technologies on the market.'
highlights_snippet.sent: Drive used a specially adapted Audi SQ5 and drove Audi SQ5 90% of the time .