I still remember that at the end of last year, Xiaobian test-drove BMW's iX, and at that time, I felt that the car, regardless of appearance and interior design, was a bit like a work from the future, including various scientific and technological functions!
But now I know that BMW also left a backhand for the iX...
----'re already on the stack, just waiting for you two
The "stack", as the name suggests, is a stacked, organized structure. In the 3C field, the software stack actually refers to the various components that make the software run normally, including the operating system, communication protocol, operating environment, database, and hierarchical call instructions. balabala。
Far from it! I'm going to tell you that it's just that the BMW iX is already equipped with a self-driving software stack!
Hey! Is it strange? At that time, Xiaobian opened iX, and indeed had L2 level auxiliary driving functions...
In fact, the point is that this "stack" is like a foundation, the foundation is laid, and the "components" inside can be flexibly replaced, that is to say, the future upgrade to L3 level automatic driving is not afraid of no space.
But BMW is a car factory after all, not a software and hardware factory, and it is very inefficient to do everything! To this end, bmw group, Qualcomm Technologies and Angel Software jointly announced that it will start a long-term strategic cooperation in the development of autonomous driving technology, and jointly develop L2-level advanced driver assistance systems and L3-level autonomous driving functions.
In fact, as early as last November, the three parties have announced that BMW Group's next-generation autonomous driving system will be based on Qualcomm Snapdragon's Ride vision system-level chip, which also includes Angel's visual perception system and Snapdragon Ride platform computing controller.
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. ”
The topic of advanced automatic driving in the car circle was basically turned off as early as 2020, the main reason is that many car manufacturers have promoted automatic driving too hot during the period from 2018 to 2019, in fact, many technologies are actually not in place, and consumer expectations are high but also lost.
Until now, the really feasible and commercially available practical, most cars are only L2 or L2+ class, the bottleneck of commercially available assisted driving is also here.
Pragmatic car manufacturers like BMW, should be assisted driving to say assisted driving, and also continue to work hard to break the bottleneck, so that L3 or even above level of automatic driving can become a reality in the future.
In view of the global chip shortage and resource shortage, BMW Group through the combination of strong and powerful, and the layout of the software stack at the first time, so that the future development and upgrading of the vehicle's autonomous driving function is more efficient, which is undoubtedly a more far-sighted approach, you say?
Come all come, don't you like it?