BMW has announced a long-term development cooperation with Qualcomm Technologies and Arriver Software for the development of new automated driving technologies.
The strategic cooperation will focus on the joint development of next-generation technologies ranging from the New Car Assessment Program (NCAP) through to Level 2 Advanced Driving Assistance systems and Level 3 High Automated Driving systems. The software functions will be based on the BMW Automated Driving software stack first launched with the all-electric iX.
BMW says the efforts will focus on creating a scalable platform based on a common reference architecture, sensor-set specifications, and safety requirements with joint development, toolchain, and a data center for storage, reprocessing, and simulations. More than 1,400 specialists from Germany, the U.S., Sweden, China, Romania, and the Czech Republic will work on the systems.
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“This joint software development is an important milestone for the BMW Group with regards to our next generation Automated Driving platform,” senior vice president of Driving Experience at BMW Group, Nicolai Martin, said in a statement.
BMW’s next-generation Automated Driving System will be ported on the Snapdragon Ride Vision system-on-chip, incorporates the Arriver Computer Vision technology and is managed by Snapdragon’s Car-to-Cloud Services platform.
“We are proud of this long-term cooperation with the BMW Group and Arriver which focuses on co-development and deployment of Automated Driving systems from NCAP to Level 3 customer functionality in BMW upcoming series production vehicles,” added senior vice president and general manager automotive at Qualcomm Technologies, Nakul Duggal. “Building on already commercialized stack components from BMW Group and Arriver, this cooperation will position us to extend BMW Automated Drive software to the Snapdragon Ride platform, and expand the accessibility of safer self-driving technologies to other automakers and Tier-1s in an open, flexible and scalable deployment framework.”
