What’s Happening: About a year ago, CARIAD and Bosch formed a partnership to focus on software development in the Automated Driving Alliance. Now, the Alliance is working on developing automated driving functions, starting with a driver assistance system that allows for active lane changes on the motorway and eventually expanding to hands-free driving in a variety of situations. The Alliance is using an agile working model and has already completed the first major milestone of building up the software stack for automated driving functions.
Why It Matters: The CARIAD-Bosch partnership signifies a significant shift for both companies from a supplier-customer relationship to partners on eye-level. The Alliance’s focus on automated driving functions represents a key step towards safe and convenient automated driving. The Alliance’s data-driven development approach will be a key enabler for achieving this goal.
Key Points:
- The CARIAD-Bosch partnership is focused on developing automated driving functions in the Automated Driving Alliance.
- The Alliance is working on a driver assistance system that allows for active lane changes on the motorway and will eventually expand to hands-free driving in a variety of situations.
- The Alliance is using an agile working model and has completed the first major milestone of building up the software stack for automated driving functions.
- The Alliance is relying on a fleet of test vehicles that are comprehensively equipped with new sensors and electronic control units (ECUs) to collect and record measurement data.
- The Alliance’s data-driven development approach will help optimize the current software stack and develop new algorithms, enabling safe and convenient automated driving functions.
Bottom Line: The CARIAD-Bosch partnership and their focus on automated driving functions represent a significant step towards safe and convenient automated driving. The Alliance’s data-driven development approach will be key to achieving this goal, and their progress towards a driver assistance system with active lane changes on the motorway is a promising development in this area.
