• Several hundred vehicles will receive sensors and high-performance computers that match the performance of CARIAD's future software platform
• Data-driven development therefore starts years ahead of market launch
• Pioneer fleet enables continuous collection and evaluation of corner cases to improve automated driving functions

First development vehicles with the new equipment are already on the road in Germany, as well as in Silicon Valley in the USA. Now, the development fleet will be expanded: several hundred production vehicles from the Group's brands will be retrofitted with a high-performance computer connected to the cloud, as well as with additional sensors. This allows developers to immediately start gathering vehicle data from traffic in real time – several years before the market launch of CARIAD’s new Group-wide software platform with this functionality.

“With the launch of our development fleet, we are already laying the foundation for an extensive pool of real-time data for the development of our new software platform," says Lynn Longo, Chief Technology Officer at CARIAD. "For the first time, we have the opportunity to continuously record critical situations in road traffic, upload them to the cloud and train our algorithms with them. This iterative process is central to tailoring functions and services precisely to the mobility needs of our users."