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CTOnews.com, July 27, CTOnews.com learned from BMW Group official account that BMW Group is speeding up the development of L3-level autopilot features, with global plans to go public by the end of 2023 or early 2024. The BMW China R & D team has also launched the localized research and development of L3 autopilot and will make full preparations for the future adaptation and application of L3 autopilot in China in accordance with local regulations.

According to BMW, in L3 autopilot, drivers can enjoy in-car audio and video entertainment such as games and streaming videos. The L3 self-driving technology kit can integrate more high-performance sensors, such as the new lidar system, and correlate all sensor information with long-range radar and front camera data to establish a complete environment model.

The BMW Group Future Travel Development Center (Future Mobility Development Center) in Sokolov, Czech Republic, was officially opened in the summer of 2023, focusing on the development and testing of driving assistance systems and autopilot technology.

According to reports, the BMW Group Future Travel Development Center (Future Mobility Development Center), covering an area of 6 million square meters, is the world's largest test site for BMW Group, providing an excellent infrastructure for testing highly automated driving assistance systems. The development center is about 280km from the BMW Group FIZ R & D center in Munich, where more than 100 engineers have carried out R & D and testing. The new development center integrates a comprehensive test site, which consists of six tracks with a total length of 25 kilometers, with a height of 80 meters on the north-south slope. In addition, the development center provides a number of test areas, including a 6-kilometer highway and rural and urban road traffic modules for advanced L4 autopilot technology and system testing. Some of the test runways have been put into use since last year.

According to the BMW Group, the Future Travel Development Center provides an ideal infrastructure for testing automatic valet parking (Automated Valet Parking) technology that meets the L4 standard. BMW is working with partner Valeo to develop an automatic valet parking solution. Automatic valet parking not only provides users with an excellent parking experience, but also helps commercial complexes to explore new services. At the same time, in order to make further use of the parking time of vehicles, there may be more services in the future, such as automatic charging or automatic car washing, which can bring more comfort and safety to users.

According to the BMW Group, total R & D investment in 2022 reached 6.624 billion euros, an increase of 5.2 per cent over the same period last year. These investments are mainly used in two directions: one is the research and development of new models and the sixth generation BMW eDrive electric drive technology; the other is the digital field, especially artificial intelligence, autopilot, human-computer interaction and so on. BMW Group Future Travel Development Center (Future Mobility Development Center) is an excellent example of BMW's promotion and deepening of future travel innovation, which will comprehensively promote the development of the ecosystem in the field of self-driving.

In July this year, the new Shanghai R & D center of BMW Group was officially opened. with the continuous expansion and upgrading of BMW's R & D facilities in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenyang and Nanjing, BMW Group has established the largest and most complete R & D system outside its German headquarters in China. Adhering to the concept of open innovation, BMW's R & D functions come together under the same roof to achieve more efficient cooperation. BMW has the full-process automobile R & D function and full-stack intelligent network connection automobile software development capability in China.

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