Porsche confirms a cooperation which manager magazin had already reported on
: The sports car manufacturer wants to cooperate with the company Mobileye in the production of highly automated driving systems. For future models, it is planned to offer, among other things, assistance systems based on a Mobileye technology platform, as Porsche announced on Tuesday in Stuttgart. The company, a subsidiary of the chip group intel, has been equipping vehicles from various manufacturers with assistance systems for years and is also working on technology for self-driving cars.
The sports car manufacturer also wants to offer a so-called Navigate-on-Pilot function as part of the cooperation. Among other things, the car can then follow predefined routes, pull in and out of the lane itself and automatically overtake slower vehicles on multi-lane roads. If the law and traffic allow it, the driver can take his hands off the wheel – but he still has to remain alert.
The Mobileye systems should therefore also be able to be used as a platform solution by other brands in the VW Group, to which Porsche holds a majority stake. The sports car manufacturer wants to have the systems adapted by its own specialists. “In the vast majority of situations, you will want to drive a Porsche yourself in the future – and of course you can at any time,” said Michael Steiner, Board Member for Development at Porsche. However, technology can relieve the driver in everyday tasks such as driving in traffic jams.