VWs CARIAD software chief promises progress one jump at a time
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“I call our program ‘triple jump’,” Hilgenberg told Reuters at the technology trade show in Las Vegas. It will rely on Qualcomm “system on a chip” semiconductors in Europe and North America, and in China will use super-chips developed with Chinese partner Horizon Robotics. Delays and cost overruns at were one of the factors behind the VW supervisory board’s decision last summer to oust Herbert Diess as and replace him with Porsche chief Oliver Blume. Sources familiar with the matter have told Reuters a new software platform intended to enable “Level 4″ autonomous driving, which was due to be implemented across the fleet from 2026, will be pushed back to the end of the decade. Volkswagen’s current status is in-between: Software now deployed allows its “ID” electric vehicles to be updated remotely, with a fix for what Hilgenberg called “teething problems”.
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