Mobileye kicks Tesla to the curb for 'pushing the envelope in terms of safety'

We now know why Mobileye severed ties with Tesla over the summer: It didn't believe the company took safety seriously enough. 

Simply put, Tesla was “pushing the envelope in terms of safety,” the chairman of Mobileye, an Israel-based company that makes collision detection systems for dozens of automakers, said Wednesday.

"[Autopilot] is not designed to cover all possible crash situations in a safe manner," Mobileye's chief technology officer, Amnon Shash, told Reuters. He added, “No matter how you spin it, [Autopilot] is not designed for that. It is a driver assistance system and not a driverless system." Read more...