Berlin – BMW and Daimler together even more closely. After the merger, their service daughters around car sharing in the past week, the auto companies announced on Thursday further cooperation In the development of self-driving cars, the two Dax companies want to combine “forces”, as it was called in a communication. The two similarly-positioned car manufacturers, had delivered a sharp, unfriendly competition, want to save on the technologies of the future development costs and the necessary critical size to achieve. Greater cooperation in the industry in the area of Autonomous Driving was no longer speculation.

A Memorandum of understanding with BMW and Daimler, in the long term in the development of the next generation of Technology of Autonomous driving, to cooperate and to bring appropriate solutions at the beginning of the next decade on the road. The goal is “the industrialization of Autonomous driving in the context of a flexible, scalable, and non-exclusive platform forward,” said BMW development chief Klaus Fröhlich. Additional partners can be added. Daimler has been working since 2017 with the automotive suppliers, Bosch is in the development of Autonomous driving in cities. BMW cooperates with the Chip group Intel. These projects should be continued.

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“Instead of individual island solutions it is a reliable overall system,” said Daimler research Board of Ola Källenius, who will replace in may, group CEO Dieter Zetsche. “Both companies will examine further partnerships with technology companies and automotive manufacturers that can contribute to the success of the platform”, shared with BMW and Daimler.

The planned Alliance illustrates two Trends in the industry: firstly, the classic car makers are under pressure because of technology companies like Google or services like Uber and Didi with their mobility to entice companies into the core business of the automotive industry. VW-in-chief Herbert Diess estimates that the Google subsidiary Waymo has the earlier Start with the technology a lead of one to two years compared to the traditional car manufacturers. Cooperation with each other and with non-Industry to remedy the situation. On Wednesday Volkswagen and the software giant Microsoft had given their cooperation in the case of cloud services in Berlin known. Bosch wants to put 200 million euros in Junior companies with a focus on Autonomous Driving, artificial intelligence and Internet solutions.

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to order parts To the car manufacturer, the additional research and development expenses for the automation, the digitization, networking and Elekrifizierung. So, Volkswagen is cooperating with, for example, the U.S. competitor, Ford. The wolf Burger joined, also, a developers consortium to the Chinese Google rival Baidu. In this consortium, most of the larger car manufacturers to work with. VW will also open its electrical production platform MEB for more competitors, as the group recently told the daily mirror. to have

“at least in a good Position” in all four of the future rich must invest “a typical car manufacturer is a good 70 billion dollars (well 61 billion euros),” as the consulting firm McKinsey in a recent study has calculated. It is only through increased cooperation. An Alternative is the auto companies also don’t have to. According to McKinsey, more than half of sales are To come in the year 2030 from the mobility industry “disruptive areas” – so, for example, the Autonomous. 80 percent of the kilometres travelled in China, Europe and the USA, would then “self-propelled, or approximately self-propelled”.

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BMW and Daimler in a first step, the automated Driving on highways, and automated Parking functions in the professional world, the talk is of Level 4 work. The technology is still to come before 2025 on the market. The safety of the occupants and all other road users for both companies is of the utmost importance, is emphasized. Only at Level 5, completely computer controlled, without steering Wheel, pedals and the human driver.

That, of all things, the two for many years of the harshest competitors in the so-called premium market, cooperate more closely, surprised. So, Daimler had set the end of 2017 in the Wake of a suspicion of a cartel in the German automotive industry in the EU-authorities, an application for leniency, and thus, the BMW Management is massively upset. The process is still running. The EU Commission had intensified its antitrust investigation, BMW, Daimler and VW at the end of last year.

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With a view to the new alliances between Daimler and BMW arrived pleaded, the industry expert Ferdinand Dudenhöffer on Thursday that the antitrust authorities should be able to see such cooperation in the face of competition with Chinese, American and Japanese corporations globally. The Federal cartel office was not available for comment unavailable.