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BMW Group et Daimler AG vont développer conjointement des technologies de nouvelle génération pour la conduite autonome.
Thu Feb 28 10:11:45 CET 2019 Communiqué de presse
Coopération stratégique planifiée sur le long terme. La prochaine génération de technologies pour les systèmes d'assistance à la conduite et la conduite hautement automatisée sur autoroute (niveau 3 et 4 ). Objectif : une plateforme flexible et des cycles d'innovation plus courts. La technologie sera prête à être commercialisée dans le milieu des années 2020 Klaus Fröhlich : Poursuite cohérente d'une stratégie de plateforme évolutive et mise en commun de l'expertise de deux leaders technologiques. Ola Källenius : En travaillant avec les partenaires appropriés, nous voulons continuer à améliorer cette technologie et préparer sa commercialisation.
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- Long-term strategic cooperation planned
- Next generation of technologies for driver assistance systems and highly automated driving on highways (SAE Level 3 and Level 4)
- Goal: a flexible platform and shorter innovation cycles
- Technology to be market ready by mid-2020s
- Klaus Fröhlich: Consistent pursuit of scalable platform strategy and pooling of expertise from two technology leaders
- Ola Källenius: Working with the right partners, we want to continue enhancing this technology and get it ready for the road.
Munich/Stuttgart. The BMW Group and Daimler AG are to join forces on automated driving. Initially, the focus will be on advancing the development of next-generation technologies for driver assistance systems, automated driving on highways and parking features (up to SAE Level 4). The two companies have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to jointly develop this technology, which is key for future mobility. The BMW Group and Daimler AG view their partnership as a longterm, strategic cooperation and aim to make next-level technologies widely available by the middle of the coming decade.
“As we continue to pursue our strategy, we are combining the
expertise of two technology leaders. At the BMW Group, long-term
partnerships within a flexible, scalable, non-exclusive platform are
fundamental to advancing the industrialisation of autonomous driving.
Combining the key expertise of our two companies will boost our
innovative strength and speed up the spread of this technology,” said
Klaus Fröhlich, Member of the Board of Management of BMW AG, Development.
Ola Källenius, Member of the Board of Management of Daimler
AG, responsible for Group Research and Mercedes-Benz Cars Development
said: “Autonomous driving is one of the most revolutionary trends for
us at the moment, and the entire Daimler Group is working very hard on
it. As always at Daimler, our top priority is safety. Instead of
individual, stand-alone solutions, we want to develop a reliable
overall system that offers noticeable added-value for customers.
Working with the right partners, we want to make significant advances
in enhancing the performance of this technology and bring it safely on
the road.”
The planned cooperation offers the BMW Group and Daimler AG a
number of obvious advantages: the skills and experience of the
individual partners and a scalable architecture will speed up and
streamline the development of future technology generations. Besides
the synergies, new technologies will be faster to market, with shorter
innovation cycles. For both companies, the safety of vehicle occupants
and other road users is of the utmost importance and a key reason for
making the reliability of systems a key criterion for the
collaboration. The two partners continue to pursue their goal of being
the pace-setter in development.
Joint development work will be carried out via a scalable
architecture covering several stages of automation, with Levels 3 and
4 enabling automated driving on highways. In addition, the two
partners plan to discuss the possibility of extending their
collaboration to cover higher levels of automation, both on highways
and in urban areas. These considerations underline the sustainable,
long-term nature of the cooperation, which includes the aim to create
a scalable platform for automated driving. The development of
current-generation technologies and ongoing collaborations of the two
companies will remain unaffected and continue as before. Ongoing
development of latest-generation technologies and existing
collaborations will remain unaffected by the projected cooperation and
go ahead as planned. The BMW Group and Daimler AG will also explore
additional partnerships with other technology companies and automotive
manufacturers that could contribute to the success of the platform.
Autonomous driving at the BMW Group The BMW Group has been
working on highly automated driving since 2006, and has established a
non-exclusive platform with technology specialists, suppliers and OEMs
to take it to series maturity. Since 2017, work in this area has been
consolidated at the Autonomous Driving Campus in Unterschleissheim,
just north of Munich, and the industrialisation and scalability of the
technology is being advanced with the support of partners. Brand new
agile software development is used at the Campus to speed up
development of the platform and set new industry standards. Around the
world, more than 70 test vehicles are trialling state-of-the-art
technology. They collect data in order to improve machine learning
with artificial intelligence through simulations and test new Level 2
- 5 functions out on the road. The generation of technologies that is
currently under development will go into series production as Level 3
automation in 2021 in the BMW iNEXT where it will also be Level 4
enabled for pilot projects.
Autonomous driving at Daimler AG Daimler AG has been working
on series development projects not only for specific Level 3 vehicles
but also for Levels 4 and 5. Long a leader in active safety systems,
it programmed its systems largely in-house right from the very
beginning. 2019 will see the launch in San José, Silicon Valley, of
its first pilot programme, with Bosch, on self-driving vehicles
(Levels 4/5) in urban environments. This will be the next milestone
within the existing cooperation between both partners and the
cooperation will continue as planned. Early next decade, Daimler will
bring to the market not only highly automated (Level 3) vehicles but
also fully automated (Level 4/5) vehicles. It is the only to the OEM
in the world to be so well-positioned to apply autonomous driving in
every relevant context, from passenger cars and vans to buses and
trucks, and is therefore relying on scalable solutions to deliver
automated driving.
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