The road to self-driving cars that think and behave like humans

Bosch and VW Group’s software arm have partnered to develop autonomous tech with “cognitive” ability

It’s hard to read anything these days without coming across the term ‘artificial intelligence’ or ‘AI’, and there’s certainly plenty of noise being made about it in the automotive industry.
One huge investment in AI is being made by supplier Bosch and the Volkswagen Group’s software arm, Cariad. These partners formed the Automated Driving Alliance in 2022 to develop autonomous systems at level two (hands-free driving on urban roads, highways and rural roads) and level three (total control on highways).
But is AI just one thing, or are there different types of it? It’s widely known that AI can be used for generating content such as text, images and videos, but on a deeper level it can be used to analyse vast amounts of technical data more accurately and effectively than conventional methods. For example, engineers can use it to vastly speed up the analysis of test data collected on pr