Bosch and Daimler will provide passenger-selected self-driving taxi services in the California Metropolitan Area from the second half of 2019. The test fleet and mobile service application will be operated by Daimler Mobile Services (Daimler) Mobility Services). The test plan will show how to intelligently link mobile services such as car2go, mytaxi and moovel to shape future traffic patterns. In addition, the two parties decided to use the US technology company Nvidia as an indispensable part of the artificial intelligence platform supplier to control the component system.
With decades of expertise in the automotive sector, Bosch and Daimler are working together to promote the development of driving systems for fully automated driverless vehicles, with a view to bringing mature and safe innovations to the market. With the same philosophy, Dr. Michael Hafner, head of the Daimler Automated Driving Division, said: "The introduction of a safe, reliable and mature system is a decisive factor." He added: "Safety is better than everything, but also us. If you have any doubts, you must first seek for it at all stages of development and face-to-face. If you have any doubts, you must seek for it first."
Dr. Stephan Honle, Senior Vice President of Bosch Automated Driving Division, said: "The process of developing autonomous driving technology into mass production is like a decathlon event." He went on to say: "Only one or two projects are performing. Excellence is the inability to win the competition. Just like us, you must be specialized in all areas to successfully enable fully automated driverless cars to drive safely on the streets of the city."
The sensor data evaluation is completed in milliseconds. The key to the success or failure of fully automated driverless driving in urban environments is whether the reliable identification of the surrounding environment can be achieved with the help of various sensors. It is necessary to analyze and analyze in a very short time. Interpreting the various data from the sensor and converting the results into driving instructions requires very powerful computing power. In other words, the future fully automated driverless car will be an action supercomputer. At the same time, the city is fully automated. The system architecture must have a diversity and backup system and require the highest level of functional security. To achieve this level of security, various circuits must be used to perform the necessary parallel operations, which means that the system can be parallelized at any time if necessary. The result is for help.
Bosch and Daimler's driving systems must rely on a control component system consisting of several independent control components, and the required platform is provided by the US technology company Nvidia to facilitate the execution of artificial intelligence logic operations and to issue driving instructions. Control component system The operating procedures are as follows: 1) Organize data from all sensors including radar, light, image and ultrasonic (sensor data fusion); 2) Complete evaluation in milliseconds; 3) Plan driving routes. In summary, control component system computing power Up to hundreds of megabytes per second, which is comparable to the combined computing power of several S-Class Mercedes cars a few years ago.
The Autopilot Experimental Team will be tested in the California Metropolitan Area. Bosch and Daimler plan to conduct autopilot tests in the California area in the second half of 2019. The test fleet will use the above control component system. In addition to testing, the two companies It will also provide consumer passenger self-driving taxi services on specific routes in a city in the San Francisco Bay Area of Silicon Valley. This pilot operation plan will provide information on how to integrate fully automated and driverless vehicles into a single carrier network. In many cities, transportation systems have been inefficient, so this test will demonstrate the potential of this new technology to solve these problems.
Bosch and Daimler have been working together since April 2017 to develop a fully automated unmanned development program for urban environments. Both parties hope to improve urban traffic flow and improve road safety, and provide elements of future traffic patterns. In addition, this There are many benefits to the new technology, such as: 1) increasing the attractiveness of car sharing; 2) allowing people to make the most effective use of the time during the ride; 3) providing another option for the driverless driver.
Cars come to find people, not people to find cars. In a certain area of the city, consumers can easily call a shared car, or a driverless car. This plan combines two advantages, one It is the world's leading automotive manufacturer's overall expertise in the automotive and transportation sector. The other is one of the world's largest auto parts suppliers in terms of systems and hardware. The common goal of this plan is to get this early and complete. Technology passed verification.
Bosch shares the co-office with Daimler, and the following two areas are co-located: one is the Stuttgart region of Germany, and the other is the Sunnyvale area in the south of San Francisco, USA. The employees of the two companies work in the same location. In order to facilitate rapid communication and coordination between different work areas, the decision-making timeline can be shortened, and they can also obtain the full expertise of the employees of the two parent companies. Bosch and Daimler share the development plan of the project plan.
The participants of the project cooperation plan jointly developed the concept and algorithm of the fully automated driverless system. Daimler's mission is to integrate the driving system into the vehicle. In order to achieve this goal, the company must provide the necessary development vehicles and test facilities. And the test vehicles required for the test team in the future; Bosch is responsible for the development of the components (sensors, starters and control components) required for the operation. For the test, the two companies will use their laboratory and test equipment, too Automotive test sites in the Immendingen and Boxberg regions of Germany will be used. In addition to being approved in 2014 for self-driving car trials in the Sunnyvale area of California, Mercedes-Benz is also It has also been approved for self-driving car trials in Sindelfingen/Boblingen, Germany, starting in 2016. As early as 2013, Bosch was approved for the expressway in Germany and the United States. The autopilot test is the world's first auto parts supplier to conduct autopilot tests on highways.