The BMW Group, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., and Arriver Software AB jointly announced the start of a long-term strategic partnership for autonomous driving technology development. The three parties have signed a strategic cooperation agreement to jointly develop next-generation autonomous driving technology, covering L2-level advanced driver assistance systems and L3-level autonomous driving functions.
As a pioneer in the transformation of mobility, the BMW Group has more than 10 years of R&D experience in the field of autonomous driving and has accumulated a large number of breakthrough key technologies. The BMW Group has maintained high R&D investment for many years, with a total R&D investment of 6.299 billion euros in 2021, mainly in areas related to new vehicle architecture and electric product offensives, as well as in the research and development of digital products and autonomous driving. In the future, the BMW Group will continue to deepen the development of the future mobility innovation field, with a view to truly transforming into a leading technology company in the field of luxury travel, providing customers with a high-quality future travel experience. Adhering to the concept of open innovation, BMW cooperates with outstanding companies in different fields to jointly promote the development of the ecosystem in the field of autonomous driving.
Nicolai Martin, Senior Vice President of Driving Experience at bmw group, said: "This cooperation marks an important milestone in the BMW Group's development of the next generation of autonomous driving platforms. In order to realize advanced and safe autonomous driving functions in vehicles, cutting-edge software will become the backbone of intelligent driver assistance systems. We are excited to further expand our partnership with global technology leaders Qualcomm and Arriver Software AB to continue to provide our customers with a world-class driving experience through long-term strategic partnerships." ”
Nakul Duggal, senior vice president and general manager of automotive business at Qualcomm Technologies, said: "We are delighted to have a long-term strategic partnership with the BMW Group and Arriver Software AB. Through this partnership, we will work on developing and deploying autonomous driving systems from L2 to L3 for future BMW production models, and extend BMW autonomous driving software to the Snapdragon Ride platform." At the same time, we will build an open, flexible and scalable autonomous driving platform to provide other automakers and Tier 1 suppliers with safer autonomous driving technology. BMW products have always been a model of high quality, performance and safety standards, and with the upcoming global launch of BMW production models equipped with next-generation autonomous driving software, The Snapdragon Ride will bring greater economies of scale to the automotive industry and shorten the development time for new models. ”
Giuseppe Rosso, President and Managing Director of Arriver Software AB, said: "We are delighted to be able to combine the Arriver Software AB vision perception system with the BMW Autonomous Driving Software Stack. The Arriver Software AB team will work with BMW Group and Qualcomm to jointly develop a next-generation open and scalable autonomous driving strategy to provide our customers worldwide with best-in-class autonomous driving solutions." ”
At present, bmw group's latest BMW automatic software stack has been the first to be installed in the innovative BMW iX model. The three parties will jointly develop next-generation autonomous driving technology based on bmw group's latest BMW autonomous driving software stack. In November 2021, the three parties announced that bmw group's next-generation autonomous driving system will be based on the Snapdragon Ride Vision system-on-chip, including the Arriver visual perception system and the Snapdragon Ride platform computing controller.
The collaboration will focus on creating a scalable autonomous driving platform based on a common architecture, sensor suite, safety requirements, toolchain, and autonomous data centers for storage, reprocessing, and simulation testing. More than 1,400 technical experts from around the world will participate in the collaboration, from Germany, China, the United States, Sweden, Romania and the BMW Group's autonomous driving test center in the Czech Republic.
In the future, BMW Group, Qualcomm and Arriver Software AB will continue to work closely together to create and continue to develop an ecosystem of autonomous driving solutions, and remain open to further collaboration.
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