BMW, Daimler pool resources on automated driving technology


  • TECH
  • Thursday, 28 Feb 2019

The BMW logo is seen on the second press day of the Paris auto show, in Paris, France, October 3, 2018. REUTERS/Regis Duvignau/Files

FRANKFURT: Daimler and BMW deepened their alliance on Feb 28 to share development costs for highly automated driving technologies, even as each carmaker continues to pursue separate efforts to develop fully self-driving cars.

The spiralling costs of designing and building computer-powered vehicles has already prompted Honda to pool its efforts with General Motors, while Volkswagen is pursuing talks with Ford about an alliance on autonomous cars.

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