The new BMW 7 Series offers a new advanced driver assistance system developed by BMW and Continental. Now, for the first time three driver assistance functions are controlled by a single camera powered by a system- on-chip EyeQ1 processing unit.

The combined technologies - Speed Limit Information (SLI), High Beam Assist (HBA) and Lane Departure Warning (LDW) were engineered with BMW through a partnership between the international automotive supplier Continental and Mobileye N.V., world leaders in the development of vision-based driver assistance systems.

The two companies have collaborated over the past few years in the development of the combined system on a world-wide range of weather conditions, road types and lane markings. The system consists of a highly dynamic range digital CMOS camera developed and produced by Continental and a high performance chip EyeQ1 provided by Mobileye.

The EyeQ1 is a system-on- chip designed to cater the type of computation one faces in such intensive visual interpretation tasks. After years of intensive engineering and continues testing the system design of Continental has been released successfully and is now being ready to market.

The SLI functionality provides an innovative solution which is the first of its kind on the market for this