Intel's self-driving car unit plans to step up use of its own radar tech by 2025

Mobileye CEO Amnon Shashua holds a lidar chip being developed by the self-driving car firm in this undated handout image provided on January 12, 2021. Courtesy of Intel Corp/Handout via REUTERS

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The head of Intel Corp's self-driving car subsidiary said on Tuesday the company wants to shift toward using its own radar-based technology and use a single lidar sensor per vehicle by 2025 in a bid to lower the cost of autonomous driving.

Mobileye has taken a different strategy from many of its self-driving car competitors, with a current camera-based system that helps cars with adaptive cruise control and lane change assistance. Those systems are on the road today and are gathering data to help Mobileye map the roads in new cities.