The Volkswagen Group is intensifying their cooperation with Mobileye; the two companies want to bring new automated driving functions into series production.
According to a press release, Mobileye will provide technologies for partially and highly automated driving based on their SuperVision and Chauffeur platforms. VW Group brands including Audi, Bentley, Lamborghini, and Porsche want to use this technology to quickly introduce new driving functions with all drive types. These include assistance systems for highway and city traffic, including autonomous overtaking in permitted areas of multi-lane roads, automatic stopping at red lights and stop signs, as well as assistance at junctions and traffic circles.
Mobileye is to supply further technology components for autonomous driving for Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles. According to the press release, Volkswagen is focusing on its own complete system in the long term: the partnerships with Bosch and Qualcomm and with Horizon Robotics in China will be continued in a focused manner. And all driver assistance systems will be based on the software architectures developed by the VW subsidiary Cariad.
To achieve L4 functions, the Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles brand will eventually be supplied with software and hardware from Mobileye. Following an extensive pilot phase with road tests in Germany and the USA, the VW Group company Volkswagen ADMT has concluded a cooperation agreement with Mobileye.
According to the press release, the core of the agreement is the use of a self-driving system for a special version of the ID.Buzz, which has been under development for autonomous driving since 2021. The system is capable of providing L4 autonomous driving, and is based on various software and hardware components, including two independent high-performance computers as well as 13 cameras, nine lidar and five radar units. Each of these sensor networks can provide 360-degree coverage of the surrounding area. The autonomous vehicles are always online for safe and efficient control.
The development goal of Volkswagen ADMT is to be able to offer the fully electric autonomous ID.Buzz AD mobility and transportation services from 2026.
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Mobileye will offer production-ready functions for the new E3 1.2 premium-oriented software architecture managed by Cariad. The collaboration between the Volkswagen Group and Mobileye could bring significant advancements developing ADAS technologies for cross-brand deployment, particularly among Audi, Bentley, Lamborghini, and Porsche.
