Volkswagen AG & Microsoft Partner for AI Project

The German Automotive Group powerhouse, who owns brands such as Audi & Porsche amongst many others, has made a large stride towards automated driving (AD).
The Group's software company; Car.software Organisation, will work closely with Microsoft to create a cloud based Automated Driving Platform (ADP) - on Microsoft Azure.

The purpose of the partnership and use of the Cloud-based platform, is to accerelate development of automated driving for the passenger car market across all of the Group's brands.
An area of particular focus is Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), to improve safety for both drivers and pedestrians.

Building this technology requires high-level computing power to collect data from numerous variables such as: road and weather conditions, obstacle detection and driver behaviours. These sources need to be inputed for the training, simulation and validation of AD and through machine learning algorthims which advance themselves through billions of real and simulated miles driven - they can connect driving experience with the AD.