Volkswagen is building a center of excellence for autonomous driving in Silicon Valley.
The outsourced department for autonomous driving at Volkswagen. VWAT, plans to launch in the United States Silicon Valley a new competence center for the Autonomous driving to establish. Specifically, the center is said to be in Belmont near San Francisco in the US state California arise.
VWAT Chef Hitzinger. Source: VW
Volkswagen made this announcement at the CES 2020 in Las Vegas that ends tomorrow. The center is dedicated to the research and development of autonomous vehicle technology. The starting shot is expected this year and will bind up to 100 experts.
Until the year 2025According to the explanation, one wants to bring the technology onto the market. The entire group wants to work for this. The first applications will be in the commercial sector, according to the VW declaration. The technology is therefore first in commercial vehicles built-in. Robot taxis and autonomous ones delivery vehicles should appear in the style of the ID models.
In addition to the location in Belmont, Wolfsburg and Munich, China also wants to open such a center of excellence.
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