BMW and Daimler to partner up for autonomous car development
The BMW group and Daimler have announced plans to work together on the development of autonomous cars. Pooled resources will concentrate on bringing level four autonomy to customer cars by mid-2020s.
The two companies have agreed to a long-term partnership that will initially focus on driver assistance systems, automatic parking and autonomous highway driving up to levels three and four. The goal of the project is to being the technology to production vehicles by the middle of the next decade.