BMW and Daimler have firmed up their plans to develop autonomous driving tech together, the two companies having inked an agreement to cooperate on developing next-generation technologies for driver assistance systems, automated highway driving and automated parking to Level 4 standards.
The aim is to shorten the time to market and get these into passenger car systems from 2024, with each of the partners implementing these technologies independently in their respective series vehicles.
The collaboration will see more than 1,200 specialists from both companies working together – many in mixed teams – at various locations including the Mercedes-Benz Technology Centre in Sindelfingen, the Daimler Testing and Technology Centre in Immendingen and the BMW Autonomous Driving Campus in Unterschleissheim, near Munich.
The main thrust of research will focus on developing a scalable architecture for driver assistance systems, including sensors, as well as a joint data centre for data storage, administration and processing, and also the development of functions and software. The companies say that further talks are planned to extend the cooperation to higher levels of automation in urban areas and city centres.
Both automakers have independently been pursuing the development of autonomous driving tech, with BMW aiming to get Level 3 automation into series production in 2021, in the BMW iNext, with Level 4 being enabled for pilot projects.
Daimler, meanwhile, has been working on series development projects not only for specific Level 3 vehicles but also for Levels 4 and 5, and is targeting to have fully automated Level 4/5 vehicles out in the market by the next decade.
The companies say that the non-exclusive cooperation is also open to other OEMs and technology partners, with results being made available to other OEMs under license. Earlier this month, the two firms, along with Aptiv, Audi, Baidu, Continental, FCA, HERE, Infineon, Intel and Volkswagen, published a white paper entitled Safety First for Automated Driving, which covered all relevant safety methods for Level 3/4 SAE automated driving.
The duo aren’t only collaborating on autonomous driving – earlier this year, they joined forces to provide mobility services, investing one billion euros for five separate joint ventures covering car-sharing, ride-hailing, parking, charging and multimodal transport. There has also been talk that they are studying the idea of working together on electric vehicle platforms in a bid to save development costs.
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Great move both BMW and Mercedes. To save BMW and Mercedes, including Proton, Volvo, Geely, Renault, Peugeot, Haval, Ford, Borgward and Mitsubishi
Support BMW, Mercedes, Proton, Geely, Volvo, Ford, Renault, Peugeot, Haval, Borgward, Mitsubishi > all
Two game changing companies are working together to develop a mindblowing innovation that will change the way we move. Meanwhile, our Proton here is still scared to release an innovation called Proton Iriz EV.
It is their right to release or not to release.
Who are you to make such decisions?
Are you the owner?
Are you the majority shareholder?
Can I tell your company to fire you for spending too much time here?
No one, no consumer, have that right over any private entity and company.
So stop making stupid demands, when you have no rights.
Meanwhile, Japanese Cars didn’t do anything much about autonomous, mobility services at all but doing about EV. While Korean Cars didn’t also do anything about Electric Vehicles and mobility services but only doing autonomous. These Korean Cars and Japanese Cars are still left behind while EU Cars, BMW, Volvo, Mercedes, Volkswagen, Ford, Proton, Geely and China Cars are moving forward.
With Daimler biggest shareholder in Geely.
The Volvo Geely group most to gain here..
*continue from my second feedback in this article,
This statement is talking about joint mergers
I have been waiting for the Iriz EV now 6 years. Mana? Mana? Mana?
The troll still harping about the same thing over and over. Can’t blame him because all the news about P1 recently are positive ones, therefore he don’t really have any choice. His employer should really reevaluate his usefulness.
Everybody is moving towards JV and mergers. Only local jaguh kampung continue to crow he is top in the kampung while feeding off scraps from his Jepunis overlord. Meanwhile Volvo Car, P1, & SMART has charted a bright future by merging with Geely.
Moving towards the future, not remain in the past.
Chill it bruh… the future here is not boring autonomous drive. Bcoz we autophiles love Bantai korner @ 100kmh, pusing sini pusing sana. We rakyat oredy change and not local jaguh kampung, a bright dawn future for Malaysia.
Wah! A game over self-talk among dupes
Oh yeah? Try bantai corner @ 100kmph in a Perodua and see which side of the ditch you’ll end up in. You should count on your stars if you don’t fly over a ravine.
Visionaries think ahead of time.
Meanwhile back in Mesia,forget about self parking car, there’s no change in policies to even upgrade mandatory safety requirement up to world standard. Is Msian lives cheaper than of the Europeans?
BMW and Daimler unthinkable JV. maybe P1 and P2 develop next national MPV together,
BMW and Daimler. They each have technologies that the other can use. What tech does Perodua have? All of theirs are belong to Toyota or Daihatsu.
Exactly what Geely founder, Li Shufu had said.
I reckon Daimler became more open to having joint effort like this after getting to know more about Mr Li and understand his points about everyone should work together on developing the future of automotive scene.
Excellent!
Haven’t seen you around for a while. Welcome back!
while here atok want to built the 3rd national car…lol
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