Following the July 2019 Volkswagen announced a partnership with Ford in the field of automatic pilot, Volkswagen recently announced the establishment of Volkswgaen Autonomy GmbH (VWAT GmbH) Co., Ltd., as a group focus on automatic pilot center of science and technology. VWAT headquarters will be set up in Munich, Germany with Wolfsburg, and the other in Silicon Valley and China will respectively set up branches in 2020 and 2021.
VW announced the establishment of a subsidiary to focus on VWAT autopilot technology, and will automatically driven by R & D department currently serves as Group Director and Senior Group Alexander Hitzinger vice president (above) to be responsible for the establishment and management.
target the next 10 years will automatically drive large-scale commercial, will be the first commercial use in the field
VW said VWAT would be Level 4 Level Group focused on autopilot Technology the central objective is to establish the autopilot in the field of expertise within the Volkswagen Group, and will be extended in the future autopilot system to market. VWAT newly formed group will serve as director of technology research and development department and the Group autopilot, senior vice president of Alexander Hitzinger to be responsible for the establishment and management.
In July this year, Volkswagen and Ford jointly announced a partnership in auto pilot areas, including a joint venture between Ford set up by the autopilot platform company Argo AI . And VWAT future Arog AI will have close cooperation and interaction, which Argo AI specializes in the field of software development autopilot, VWAT is responsible for systems engineering and industrialization, the goal is Yaodazaochu can let other Volkswagen Group brands can quickly use the modules of the autopilot system, and by the power of cooperation among all Group brands, to reduce the high-performance computing processor, Sensor and cost autopilot cars.
VW hopes in the next 10 years will be the middle stage of large-scale commercial autopilot, And in accordance with the public plan VWAT first task will be to propose and residents will move goods solutions, which went as autopilot and auto-taxi vans …… and other types of commercial use for the first. Thus, in the field of global MaaS autopilot and transportation services have been put into action the Volkswagen Group will be the first commercial vehicle brand VWCV play a key role.
