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[UK] 2020.20.x
- Thread starter CMc1
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I am not a patent expert but having looked at the Mobileye patent it seems very generic to me. It seems odd to be able to corner the market on a computer capability of recognising the characters on a street sign by means of a camera. I do hope Tesla (and others) can successfully implement a way of doing it without impinging on the Mobileye patent.
MrBadger
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EM says that it is on its way - Tesla would appear to have worked around it. I don't think that recognising a sign with '30' on it is any different to recognising a sign with 'STOP' on it.
Many industries have problems with often very basic and wide ranging patents that were often granted some time ago.
Usually they follow the same dance where they try to reach agreement with the patent owner, fail, try to work around it, fail, then eventually spend the time and money to get the original patent revoked.
A whole business model has built up around acquiring failed/failing businesses that happen to have older wide-ranging but basic patents and then using them to extort money and other advantages from companies currently making money in a related manner.
I've been dragged into a few of these over the years and they waste a lot of time and money unfortunately and ultimately have nothing to do with protecting the rights of genuine inventors.
Usually they follow the same dance where they try to reach agreement with the patent owner, fail, try to work around it, fail, then eventually spend the time and money to get the original patent revoked.
A whole business model has built up around acquiring failed/failing businesses that happen to have older wide-ranging but basic patents and then using them to extort money and other advantages from companies currently making money in a related manner.
I've been dragged into a few of these over the years and they waste a lot of time and money unfortunately and ultimately have nothing to do with protecting the rights of genuine inventors.
Cnixon
Member
My eyes can detect the speed limit and I can control my actions based upon what I can see. Am I infringing their patent? Sorry its BLX! Ps Audi have done it for years and only seem to charge £150 for the option.
Gatsojon
Member
Fair enough but presumably BMW and many others just pay them to use it? I paid £220 iirc for the option in the BMW and I’d be prepared to pay that again. Seems better value than £5800 for FSD.I think Mobileye has a patent?
it sounds from later posts that it’s on its way. Excellent!
Cnixon
Member
Looks like they have the shout on auto dipping hadlights as well. Good job no one infringed that one!
Cnixon
Member
If Google use open street maps they are very accurate. I would like to see a system which started to slow before the sign though.
Crap! Wise move by me, updating seems to take ages on this car. Yup I parked to charge and it's stopped the charge to update :/I have a loaner Model X P100D today for 10-15 days (fixing my M3 leaking boot and water in boot lid) anyway, the car is just now updating to 2020.20.1
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Not sure what it will bring to a 2017 MX
MrBadger
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Out of curiosity, have you tried Sentry with a drive > 128GB? Sounds like MCU 1 vehicles are struggling with large media drives.
AndrewGR
Member
Sadly, it doesn’t. Missed out on a bit of free charge yesterday when the sun reappeared after disappearing for long enough for the car to go to sleep.
