Volkswagen ADMT Announces Agreement With Mobileye for Autonomous Driving
March 20 2024 - 7:57AM
Business Wire
- Volkswagen is the first vehicle manufacturer to develop an
autonomous Level 4 service vehicle for large-scale production
- The aim is to use it in the commercial sector, for example for
mobility and transport services in Europe and the USA
- High synergies with systems for automated driving within
Volkswagen Group: shared module use from Level 2+ to Level 4
Autonomous driving is coming. Following an extensive pilot phase
with road testing in Germany and the USA, Volkswagen ADMT GmbH,
part of Volkswagen AG, is announcing a cooperation agreement with
the technology company Mobileye Global Inc. Mobileye shall develop
and supply software, hardware components and digital maps for the
self-driving ID. Buzz AD.
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The Volkswagen ID. Buzz AV built on the
Mobileye Drive™ autonomous platform. (Photo: Mobileye)
The main part of the agreement covers delivery and use of a
self-driving system (SDS) for a special version of the ID. Buzz,
which has been under development for autonomous driving since 2021.
It corresponds to the so- called Level 4 definition of the Society
of Automotive Engineers (SAE), in which the autonomous vehicle
operates self-driving in a defined area such as a city. The basis
for this are various software and hardware components, including
two independent high-performance computers as well as 13 cameras,
nine lidar and five radar units, each of which is capable of
producing 360-degree surroundings. A constant online connection to
clouds provides the autonomous vehicles with swarm data from other
road users about the traffic situation as well as updates to the
three-dimensional maps.
“Bringing autonomous shuttles on the road in large quantities
requires cooperation from strong partners,” says Christian Senger,
member of the Board of Management at Volkswagen Commercial
Vehicles, responsible for Autonomous Driving: “We are developing
the first fully autonomous large- scale production vehicle, and
Mobileye brings its digital driver on board.”
An advantage of the cooperation is the synergy with systems for
automated driving in the Volkswagen group; depending on the
expansion level, modules can be shared across SAE levels from 2+ to
4. The aim of Volkswagen ADMT GmbH is to develop the fully electric
autonomous ID. Buzz AD for the use in mobility and transport
services from 2026.
This also includes intelligent fleet control: The Volkswagen
Group company MOIA has been operating Europe's largest private ride
pooling service in Hamburg since 2019 and has transported more than
ten million passengers to date. MOIA brings its practical know-how
into the development: Unlike individual (partially) autonomous
cars, which are used individually by vehicle owners, mobility
services are dedicated to transporting passengers to their desired
destinations within the defined urban area and drop them off
safely. Another use case for self-driving vehicles is, for example,
the transport of packages. The logistics market has grown
significantly in recent years due to the increasing share of
e-commerce. Delivery capacity is already one of the biggest
challenges the industry is facing due to the driver shortage.
Autonomous transport will therefore be a possible solution to
ensure long- term delivery capability and participate in market
growth. Volkswagen ADMT GmbH is working intensively on autonomous
freight transport for various industries as a second important
pillar alongside autonomous passenger transport. In the future,
autonomous vehicles shall be able to drive to certain loading and
unloading stations or to customer addresses independently.
Autonomous vehicles for mobility and transportation services
solve the driver shortage that has been the case for many years.
Robo-shuttles promote both the quality of life and the economic
development of cities.
Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles: We Transport Success, Freedom
and Future As a leading manufacturer of light commercial vehicles,
the Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles brand (VWCV) is reshaping the
transportation of goods, services and people in a fundamental and
lasting way. Our vehicles transport construction workers, families
and adventurers, bread rolls, parcels and surfboards. Every day
they help countless people all over the world to do a good job,
they operate as mobile workshops and they bring paramedics and
police personnel to wherever they are needed. At our sites in
Hanover (D), Poznań (PL), Września (PL) and Pacheco (ARG), around
24,000 employees produce the Transporter, the new Multivan, Caddy,
Crafter and Amarok model lines, and since May 2022 the ID. Buzz –
the fully electric version of our iconic Bulli. Within the
Volkswagen Group, VWCV is also the lead brand for autonomous
driving and mobility offerings such as Mobility-as-a-Service and
Transport-as-a-Service - areas in which we are shaping the future
of mobility. In this way, the brand is transporting the society of
tomorrow with all its requirements for clean, intelligent and
sustainable mobility. It is this that Volkswagen Commercial
Vehicles stands for with its brand promise: We transport success,
freedom and future.
About Mobileye
Mobileye (Nasdaq: MBLY) leads the evolution of mobility with its
autonomous driving and driver-assistance technologies, based on
world-renowned expertise in artificial intelligence, computer
vision, mapping, and integrated hardware and software. Since its
founding in 1999, Mobileye has enabled the wide adoption of
advanced driver-assistance systems while pioneering groundbreaking
technologies such as REM™ crowdsourced mapping, True Redundancy™
sensing, Responsibility-Sensitive Safety™ (RSS™) driving policy and
Driving Experience Platform (DXP). These technologies support a
product portfolio structured for scale and designed to unlock the
full potential of mobility, offering a range of solutions from
premium ADAS to autonomous vehicles. By the end of 2023, about 170
million vehicles worldwide had been equipped with Mobileye
technology. In 2022, Mobileye listed as an independent company
separate from Intel (Nasdaq: INTC), which retains majority
ownership. For more information, visit
https://www.mobileye.com.
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