Fiat Chrysler joining BMW, Intel, Mobileye autonomous development group
Will bring engineering and other technical resources and expertise to the cooperation, as well as its significant sales volumes, geographic reach, and longtime experience in North America.
The cooperation remains on-track to deploy 40 autonomous test vehicles on the road by 2017 year-end.
Photo courtesy Intel
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The cooperation remains on-track to deploy 40 autonomous test vehicles on the road by 2017 year-end.
Photo courtesy Intel
BMW Group, Intel, and Mobileye signed a memorandum of understanding with the intention for Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) to be the first automaker to join them in developing a world-leading, state-of-the-art autonomous driving platform for global deployment.
The development partners intend to leverage each other’s individual strengths, capabilities, and resources to enhance the platform’s technology, increase development efficiency, and reduce time to market. One enabler to achieve this will be the co-location of engineers in Germany as well as other locations. FCA will bring engineering and other technical resources and expertise to the cooperation, as well as its significant sales volumes, geographic reach, and longtime experience in North America.
In July 2016, BMW Group, Intel, and Mobileye announced they were joining forces to make self-driving vehicles a reality by collaborating to bring solutions for highly-automated driving (Level 3) and fully-automated driving (Level 4/5) into production by 2021. Since then, they have been designing and developing a scalable architecture that can be used by multiple automakers around the world, while at the same time maintaining each automaker’s unique brand identities.
The cooperation remains on-track to deploy 40 autonomous test vehicles on the road by 2017 year-end. It also expects to benefit from leveraging data and learnings from the recently announced 100 Level 4 test vehicle fleet of Mobileye, an Intel Company, demonstrating the scale effect of this collaborative approach.
BMW Group, Intel, Mobileye, and FCA, together with the recently announced development partners and system integrators, invite and welcome additional automakers and technology suppliers to join them in adopting this autonomous driving platform in an effort to create an industry-wide solution.
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