BMW revealed the BMW Imaginative and prescient Neue Klasse, an idea electrical automobile that can underpin its foray into battery-powered vehicles.
Arjun Kharpal | CNBC
MUNICH — BMW will construct its semi-autonomous driver help system on Amazon’s cloud computing know-how, the 2 corporations mentioned Tuesday.
The German automaker’s next-generation superior driver help system, or ADAS, will characteristic in its Neue Klasse vary of electrical vehicles that the corporate revealed on Saturday — that can launch in 2025.
It comes as conventional automakers look to spice up the know-how of their vehicles, with a selected deal with ADAS, to compete with Tesla.
An ADAS is a software program system that may supply drivers help with actions equivalent to lane altering or parking. Automakers want to introduce an growing variety of these options as they push towards autonomous driving. Tesla’s ADAS for instance is known as Autopilot.
ADAS would require giant quantities of information processing because the software program depends on {hardware} units, together with cameras and semiconductors. Synthetic intelligence processes are key to underpinning these assisted driving programs.
That is the place Amazon Internet Companies, or AWS, is available in. BMW will retailer and course of a number of information in Amazon’s cloud servers. As autonomous driving options advance, an growing quantity of information storage and processing can be required.
Creating these options within the cloud will permit BMW to replace the software program faster and practice new AI fashions that can perform more and more advanced autonomous driving capabilities. These new options, in principle, will be downloaded over the web straight to the automotive.
“Implementing these programs on the BMW Group’s worldwide scale requires an strategy that may course of and analyze huge quantities of information, in addition to study and innovate, so automakers can develop safer and extra dependable automated and ADAS programs,” Wendy Bauer, common supervisor of automotive and manufacturing at AWS, mentioned in a press launch.
BMW additionally mentioned it would use Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Experience platform — a set of specialised chips — to assist energy its ADAS from 2025 onward.
