Mobileye, Zeekr aim for autonomous car in China by 2024

Intel Corp’s autonomous driving unit, Mobileye, said on Tuesday it prepares to work with Geely Holding-backed Zeekr to launch in China what the companies claim will be the world’s first largely self-driving car by 2024.

The companies plan to introduce the vehicle in China in 2024, which would make it the first-ever L4 consumer AV. Mobileye and Geely will later expand to global markets.

The vehicle will be created using six EyeQ 5s, Mobileye’s fifth-generation autonomous driving chip, and other Mobileye technologies such as Road Experience Management (REM) mapping technology. REM is a crowdsourced, continuously updated map of roads across the world.