US subcontractor Visteon and Chinese internet giant Tencent are partners in autonomous driving.
Still on the CES 2019 would have Visteon presented its cockpit solutions for autonomous driving. Now it became known that in this regard with the Internet company Tencent will work together.
Together we want to prepare the cockpits for the Chinese market. Because the cockpits of Visteon will in future be part of the research and development center of Guangzhou Automobile Group (GAC) further developed in China. The intention is to expand the Visteon SmartCore Cockpit domain control platform with the TAI (Tencent Automotive Intelligence). This allows an operation and interaction such as facial expression, speech and gesture recognition.
The fruits of the common development should decrease 2020 come on the market, in the e-vehicles of GAC. Part of the cooperation is therefore also to exchange the research results with each other.
Tencent’s TAI solution implies a systematic content platform, big data, environmental services and one Artificial intelligence, Their functions allow intelligent, situation-dependent and personalized services. In addition to the SmartCore cockpit, Visteon will also be his product Drive Core into the cooperation. It is a platform for the development of Autonomous Driving of Level 3 and higher. The platform consists of hardware, middleware and software. Where you can integrate an artificial intelligence.
Visteon has been working with Chinese e-carmaker GAC since last January. In addition, one is in cooperation with ZongmuIt also concerns the development of autonomous driving. Also Dongfeng Motors has been relying on the controllers of the US supplier Visteon since 2017.
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