“The best innovation happens through collaboration“

What are the primary objectives of the Automated Driving Alliance between CARIAD and Bosch?

We joined forces in the Automated Driving Alliance to take on one of the most complex technological tasks–creating safe automated driving solutions. We are the only European initiative building a scalable software platform for assisted and automated driving. Our mission is to democratize this technology, making it affordable and accessible across all vehicle classes within the Volkswagen Group. From the very beginning, we have put safety at the center of our development process. Making mobility safer is our guiding parameter.

How does this collaboration enhance the development of automated driving technologies?

At CARIAD, we believe that in today’s fast-paced tech world, the best innovation happens through collaboration. That’s what the Automated Driving Alliance is about–a partnership of strengths. We are bringing together our best software engineers, combining our deep expertise in data-driven development and AI. In addition to that, we have decades of experience in volume production, scalability, and the industrialization of driving systems. Our shared, cutting-edge development environment supports agile workflows with fast iterations. It enables our engineers to develop, test, and implement software updates to our test fleet several times a day. This empowers our development across the whole product stack, from system level, through perception and prediction to the vehicle and data acquisition as well as a data and development ecosystem.

What milestones have been achieved so far in this partnership, and what are the next steps?

We have implemented our full software stack on our target hardware and quickly ramped up our test fleet. We are conducting test drives on public roads across Europe, North America and Japan. And we are seeing great results. In addition, we continuously train and improve the self-learning AI systems with real-world and simulation data.