HAMBURG: Volkswagen plans to develop many of the software program wanted for autonomous vehicles in-house, the top of the German carmaker’s luxurious unit Audi mentioned on Tuesday.
The carmaker just isn’t rejecting collaborations in some areas outright, mentioned Markus Duesmann, who in addition to working Audi can also be on Volkswagen’s administration board, the place he’s liable for analysis and improvement.
“However we’ll make the majority of the software program on our personal sooner or later,” he mentioned throughout an trade occasion.
Requested whether or not Volkswagen was seeking to Alphabet’s Google as a benchmark in software program improvement, Duesmann mentioned it wished to be a minimum of on the identical degree.
“We settle for the problem,” he added.
Daimler and Volkswagen are engaged on their very own working methods for autonomous vehicles to ensure they’ve an opportunity to compete with massive tech corporations resembling Apple and Amazon within the space of electrical car knowledge.
Regardless of calls to group up with rivals, Volkswagen is to this point planning to go it alone, pointing to its place because the world’s second-largest carmaker.
“We now have a dimension that makes us wish to cooperate with ourselves initially,” mentioned Duesmann, including that Volkswagen is assured it may well set new requirements in software program improvement.
If different corporations wished to affix these requirements it will be attainable for them to take action, the Audi govt added.
Volkswagen has bundled its software program competence right into a newly shaped unit Automotive.Software program.Org, which employs about 5,000 and develops the VW.OS working system.