BMW ramps up autonomous driving technology development in China
German carmaker BMW Group will accelerate the development of autonomous driving technology with new facilities to be launched later this year at its R&D centre in Shenyang, Xinhua reports
An autonomous driving data processing centre and an autonomous driving test workshop will open in September and December this year. The former will be aimed to help efficiently process autonomous driving test data, while the latter will primarily validate autonomous driving functions for new local models.
Patrick Mueller, the Vice President of the BMW Brilliance R&D Centre, said that BMW Brilliance Automotive Ltd. will strengthen co-operation with Shenyang in the future in areas such as vehicle testing, information sharing, and formulating autonomous driving policies and regulations.
BMW's Shenyang facility, which combines R&D and production functions, is the German carmaker's largest production base worldwide and one of its most important new energy vehicle (NEV) bases.
With R&D centres in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenyang and Nanjing, BMW has the largest R&D network in China outside Germany.
