Autonomous driving
BMW cooperates with Intel and Mobileye
BMW intends to cooperate with Intel and Mobileye on autonomous driving in the future. The three companies announced this on Friday. The partners want to put the first series-produced fully automated vehicle on the road in 2021.
Autonomous driving is the future of urban mobility. This means an enormous increase in safety and comfort on the one hand, but also a need for innovative technology solutions on the other. BMW, Mobileye and Intel are now working together on systems that will enable fully autonomous driving by 2021.
The medium-term goal of the alliance is to develop solutions that allow drivers to take their hands off the steering wheel, take their eyes off the road and focus on things other than traffic. This means that driving time in the car can be used for work or leisure. In the long term, the aim is to completely replace the human driver.
According to the three companies, a highly automated prototype will be presented in the near future. Tests will then be extended to autonomous fleets in 2017. The technology will be used in a new model from the i family, which is due to be launched on the market in 2021. "We are systematically working on fully automated driving as a key technology for the future of the automotive industry," emphasizes Harald Krüger, Chairman of the Board of Management of the BMW Group. "To achieve this, it is important to work with the right partners. In December last year, together with Daimler and Audi, we bought the map service provider Here in order to gain access to highly accurate map material. Through the partnership with Intel and Mobileye, we now expect to gain concentrated expertise in the fields of artificial intelligence, chip technologies and back-end solutions with first-class hardware and software security."
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