A recent funding round of $5.6 billion led by Alphabet will reinforce the company’s AV efforts that have included opening Waymo One to all riders in Los Angeles, partnering with Hyundai, developing a sixth-generation Driver, and researching an end-to-end multimodal model for autonomous driving.
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Bill DeVries, VP of North America Customer Solution Experiences at Dassault Systèmes, writes that major changes are needed to roads, laws, and ways of thinking to make self-driving vehicles safe and reliable, and he explores the challenges that need to be solved before robocars can become widespread.
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The company provided a few product peeks and a roundup of technology and partnerships—all supporting its Dare Forward 2030 long-term strategy for ‘cutting-edge freedom of mobility,’ with four core targets around improving carbon footprint, BEV sales mix, customer experience, and financials.
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The new purpose-built mobility vehicle, being designed and developed at Zeekr’s CEVT R&D facility in Gothenburg, Sweden, is to be integrated into the Waymo One fleet in the U.S.
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At the company’s Software Day 2021, it outlined how it will get to 34 million monetizable connected cars by 2030, deploy three AI-powered technology platforms starting in 2024, and leverage strategic partnerships like an expanded relationship with Foxconn for semiconductors.
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The partnership complements Daimler Trucks’ dual-strategy approach of working with two strong partners—the other is its subsidiary Torc Robotics—to deliver SAE Level 4 solutions.
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The Computer Vision Center is developing the simulator for the development, training, and validation of automated urban driving systems.
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