German minister commits to automated driving at Infineon visit

Central Driver Assistance System (Zentrale Fahrerassistenzsystem, zFAS) that was developed by TTTech Computertechnik and AUDI. Powered by AURIX microcontrollers by Infineon

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Wait! I though nVidia claimed this victory with Audi back at CES in Jan 2015 (https://www.tttech.com/news-events/newsroom/details/audi-showcases-next-evolution-of-zfas-architecture-with-tttech-in-audi-prologue-piloted-driving-at-c/). Did something change? Infineon was not promoted much back then, but is a more realistic supplier.

BMW wants to avoid becoming a Foxconn supplying Apple

German schools are not producing enough tech engineers for BMW to hire them all in house

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I suppose there are schools outside of Germany able to help BMW meet its goals too. Very interesting that they seek to move from 20% software engineers to 50% of the payroll. Cars are mostly software now with autonomous electric propulsion simplifying things in the mechanical world. Elon Musk appears to have been right.

Driving The Connected Car onto the Open Road