Automated driving is about more than just sensors, control units, and lots of computing power. It also requires a host of smart services, without which no vehicle will ever be able to drive autonomously. “Services are at least as important for automated driving as the hardware and software,” says the Bosch board of management member Dr. Dirk Hoheisel. “We must pursue all three paths simultaneously to get self-driving cars safely and reliably onto our roads.” Like barely any other global supplier of technology and services in the automotive industry, Bosch devotes significant effort into achieving a breakthrough in automated driving. In these efforts, it is creating integrated solutions. One area that demonstrates this is the safety-critical topic of localization. Self-driving vehicles can drive safely only if they know down to the nearest centimeter exactly where they are at any given time. To achieve this, Bosch offers a globally unrivaled localization package. Taken together, its hardware, software, and services serve as a redundant system for precisely determining the vehicle’s position.
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SOURCE: Bosch
