Only together they are strong

the robot will be When all cars on the road, the feel of each person. The traffic is safer, because machines make fewer errors. There will be much less Jobs, because at the end of the technical development, no driver be needed in the buses and trains. And the car manufacturers have a Problem: cars are often only used and not purchased.

It is now expected that the cars are already driving the day after tomorrow, all by themselves on the streets. More likely to be in 20 or 30 years, because a number of technical, regulatory and cultural uncertainties, do again and again, bundled in the core question: How do people and machines come together?

But eventually, cars will drive completely alone, and whether one condones it or not. This will be a Revolution, much more serious, than it is to switch to electric drives. That is why it is important and right that the German car industry is currently discussing to join forces. The automotive location in Europe should be a leader and to stay as many Jobs, it needs a European robot auto Alliance.

programming The new company and to build a more rapid rate than corporations such as BMW, Daimler and Volkswagen are accustomed to.

The course for the future is already set. The way to the future ausgefuchstere assistance systems that assist drivers prepare. Who sets the Standards, who can determine which of the Sensors – the eyes and ears of the car – are necessary, what is the basic logic of the artificial intelligence that will determine for a long time the business.

Currently, it looks as high-tech firms from the US and China have the nose in front: Google, Alibaba or Baidu have about your current products, mobile phones or search engines, you already have access to hundreds of millions of customers. And you have a lot of capital available. Specifically, the Google-daughter Waymo are in the front of the world's robot car race; the Americans have just announced the construction of a robot car factory. This is likely to be a little inflated, but it is so: This new company program and build a more rapid rate than corporations such as BMW, Daimler and Volkswagen are accustomed to – in their cars, by the way, yet ten times as many programming lines as in a Smartphone.

at Least some of the German car Manager about Harald Krüger, BMW's, Dieter Zetsche of Daimler and Herbert Diess, Volkswagen – try red tape in your company to reduce, try to save money, so it is for the New. Volkswagen restructures, also, separates in the future, the development of Hardware and Software.

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does Anyone think in this industry, clearly, has long recognized that each company is too small and weak to develop the new technologies alone. Two years ago, the major German auto companies jointly acquired the digital map service Here; the cost of almost three billion euros they shared. These are all correct developments and decisions. But that is not enough. Alone with cards and more Software a German or European robot car is not driving forward. In this respect, it is high time that further appointments be made, currently instigated by Volkswagen.

of Course: That sounds quick to suspect collusion. The European cartel guards will certainly look carefully – and you should, too. However, soundings, and optionally transparent logged-in appointments, would be so Railways negligence of the competition authorities, such as their current objections to the cooperation between Alstom and Siemens in the iron. Here, like there, you have to take the whole world in view, in order to assess where a monopoly is created.

Even in the case of a German or European robot auto Alliance is not assured that the continent remains so relevant in the industry as yet. Without such an Alliance, it seems unimaginable, to keep the place. And this also has consequences for the Swiss suppliers.

(editing Tamedia)

Created: 03.02.2019, 17:39 PM