Dutchy Ron schreef op 10 juli 2017 19:06:
www.forbes.com/sites/dougnewcomb/2017...Just since the beginning of the year, the German technology giant has teamed with Mercedes-Benz to develop self-driving cars for city applications, with Chinese search giant Baidu and two other companies in China for mapping software, with TomTom to develop a novel use for radar sensors, with Sony to develop new imaging technology and with Nvidia for computer processors.
“It’s extremely important to form these types of partnerships, especially if you talk about autonomous driving and urban mobility,” Steiger said. “We partnered with Daimler for two reasons. First, is being able to come earlier to the market. The second is having competencies that fit each other.”
On the partnership with the three Chinese map providers – Baidu, Navinfo and Autonavi – Steiger said that “everyone was surprised that we were able to bring all three of these to the table. But we did since there’s so much interest in automated driving.”
The partnership with TomTom can be viewed in part as a response to Mobileye’s Road Experience Management platform, which uses the company’s cameras in millions of cars to provide more detailed, real-world mapping data for self-driving cars. And helps Intel and Delphi fast-track autonomous vehicle technology.
Similarly, the Radar Road Signature platform developed by Bosch and TomTom captures billions of reflections created by radar signals bouncing off objects such as road signs and guard rails. “It uses radar sensors to always measure objects so you get a kind of fingerprint of the road,” Steiger said.“Once you have that, you can upload the data into the cloud and it can be added to really localize your car,” he added. “We’ve been astonished at how accurate it is. Even in the first attempts we’ve achieved a 10 x 10-centimeter accuracy.”
Steiger acknowledged that this is a unique and pervasive time for partnerships in the automotive industry and stressed that “the level of technology required for automated driving is so high that you can’t do everything yourself.” But because of Bosch’s core competencies, he believes the company is poised to take advantage of the disruptions and opportunities that will come from automated vehicles over the next decade or so.
“Bosch is well positioned in all the main aspects of automated drive: safety, sensors, electronics, a systems approach,” he said. “That all comes from us.”