Mercedes and Nvidia try to catch up to Tesla Sergei Dragun | 25.06.2020
Daimler and Nvidia announced the beginning of the development and implementation of the car Mercedes-Benz new processor and software platform.
Now Tesla broke away from competitors in the ability to integrate the processors in the vehicles and in the development of new functions.
Due to fast software update, Tesla cars have a wide working range and large number of entertainment possibilities. According to Volkswagen, Tesla ahead of the competition ten
years.
Mercedes, the world’s oldest automaker is trying to reduce this gap. He took the unprecedented step of sharing its intellectual property with Nvidia in exchange for access
to Nvidia and its software engineers specializing in artificial intelligence.
Usually automakers are working alone or in partnership with their trusted suppliers. They combine car platform, originally developed for the drive motors
internal combustion, with software and components for electric vehicles that develop third-party vendors.
That is, instead of designing a new car from scratch, German automakers have tried to combine their own designs and software from different vendors. Subsequently,
it is difficult to upgrade cars.
Software and computing power are becoming increasingly important due to automated driving, which requires that radar, ultrasonic, chamber and other sensors
to communicate with each other and also to cope with the requirements of the battery charge.
In cars with zero emissions electricity is consumed not only by acceleration but also by cooling of the battery, operation of air conditioners, seat heaters
the infotainment system in the vehicle, image recognition and semi-Autonomous driving functions.
Tesla started as well as other brands, but then adopted a strategy similar to the strategy Apple — it designs computer chips and software on their own.
Like Apple, Tesla has redefined the way the use of technology in the automotive industry.
Frightened by the progress Tesla, German automakers rebuild their business. But they have to catch up, and even that is given to them with difficulty.
Tesla keeps the gap and even increase it.
The company collects data on the extent of battery discharge and driving style on all their cars and uses them for the development of new software algorithms.
The priority in development of batteries has allowed Tesla to keep the battery capacity is above 90% even after 200 000-300 000 km, or four to five years, said analysts at UBS. This merit,
batteries and semiconductor devices.
Association with Nvidia will help Daimler to adopt new technologies and to reduce the backlog.
The results are not immediately jointly developed by Mercedes-Nvidia will appear on roads only in 2024.
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