http://www.golem.de/news/autonomes-fahren-bmw-will-das-intelligenteste-auto-bauen-1603- 119588.html Published: 03/06/2016 13:21
100th birthday companies should even the Chancellor after Munich come. In the future, BMW will also in the development of self-driving cars up front to be there.
The Munich carmaker BMW does not want to be dependent on leading IT companies like Google or Apple in the development of autonomous vehicles. “For me it is a core competency to have the smartest car” , said BMW development chief Klaus Fröhlich told Reuters at the Geneva Motor Show. “We have to get our business model without it deliver to an Internet group” , Cheerful said, adding: “Otherwise we end up like Foxconn for a company like Apple: We deliver only the body . “
Its competitors BMW but are loud Cheerful in the future not just Google and Apple, who want to build both autonomous cars, but also ” new middlemen “ as the taxi service Uber or the Internet marketplace TrueCar.
Cheerful admits catching up a
Whether BMW to claim Fröhlichs can meet in the near future, but it is doubtful. Currently, the Munich seem zurückzuliegen behind the German competition from Daimler and Audi when it comes to autonomous driving itself. For example, Daimler has recently received a license to test fully automated functions with a standard-equipped E-class model in Nevada. A highly automated Audi A7 is already driving hundreds of kilometers at a stretch on German motorways. A tested by Golem.de highly automated BMW could take a Autobahnabzweigung north of Munich, after all, already.
Cheerful admitted that it is necessary to catch up with BMW in this regard still a lot. “We need to catch up when it comes to machine learning and artificial intelligence” , said the head of development. So the proportion of programmers was below the 30,000 employees, contractors and suppliers, which operated for BMW research and development, only 20 percent. “If we want to have a ratio of 50:50 in five years, we need further 15,000 to 20,000 people of partnerships with suppliers and other” , Cheerful said.
The German universities were not of sufficient computer so BMW this all could adjust. Recently the supplier Bosch had announced to seek thousands software developers. In competition for the best graduates the traditional IT companies such as Google and Apple are already given a better chance.
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Cheerful also announced that BMW would continue to sell well as electric drives. “We see a lot of small producers, it can not afford to develop a plug-in hybrid” , Cheerful said. BMW has the i3 already an electric car on the market, which can increase its reach with the help of a gasoline engine.
In addition, BMW is still looking for a partner for cloud computing, Cheerful said. This involves, among other things, this forward and to work on back-end servers that are generated by the car sensor data over the Internet. However, BMW has already taken this last year together with Daimler and Audi map service Here. According to Reuters, BMW has recently acquired a company with 200 employees in Chicago, most of whom had previously worked for Nokia. Also Here formerly belonged to Nokia, the Finnish company had to buy the Chicago-based Navteq mapping service.
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For Cheerful it is time to develop as much expertise in-house, which is quite mutual benefits of cooperation with could give new suppliers. “The mindset here is: They have weaknesses and there may be some win-win situations” , Cheerful said. Nevertheless, the own competence must be built in these areas in five to six years.
100 years ago, on March 7, 1916 BMW was established under the former name “Bayerische Flugzeugwerke”. Later renamed the company into Bayerische Motoren Werke. Today BMW with 116,000 employees and more than 80 billion euros of the largest German corporations. Since the engine technology in times of electric drives and autonomous cars is less important, the company would soon consequently in Bayerische Software Works (BSW) to rename.
At the anniversary celebration on Monday in Munich’s Olympiahalle even German Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) had announced. However, they have their participation on Friday to cancel at short notice, reported WirtschaftsWoche. Reason apparently was the simultaneous special EU summit with Turkey in Brussels. As a representative of the Federal Government Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt (CSU) is now to attend the ceremony. Whether Merkel prepare their planned speech as video message to Munich, had not yet decided on Friday at the chancellery. (Fg)
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