Bosch and Cariad together for new autonomous driving functions with AI

Bosch and Cariad, the software division of the Volkswagen Group, are intensifying their collaboration within the Automated Driving Alliance, which was launched in 2022, to develop their software stack for Level 2 and Level 3 assisted and autonomous driving by making full use of artificial intelligence. To this end, the two companies are expanding their existing approaches to include state-of-the-art artificial intelligence methods to lead to the development of more powerful and intelligent driver assistance systems that act as naturally as a human driver.

The Automated Driving Alliance has been using AI since the beginning of the partnership, for instance in the area of perception for functions such as object recognition. AI is now used throughout the entire software technology chain: from object recognition to the combination of various sensors such as cameras and radar, to decision-making and the safe automated control of propulsion, steering and brakes. In the future, autonomous driving functions will be based on an end-to-end AI architecture in which all modules will become even more powerful and intelligent through the use of AI.

The goal of the project is to make autonomous driving available to millions of private motorists, from the mass segment to the premium segment, and with the upgrades in place, the new driving functions will allow drivers to take their hands off the wheel in different driving situations.

The first versions have been implemented in test fleets on public roads in Europe, Japan and the USA are checked and developed daily with large amounts of data. A software stack for application in production projects will then be available from mid-2026.

The Volkswagen Group plans to integrate autonomous driving functions from Bosch and Cariad into its new software-defined vehicle architecture. While the technology is already being used in test vehicles such as ID.Buzz and Audi Q8.