Infineon Technologies is working with Austrian product compliance company Kontrol to automate safety in autonomous vehicles such as driverless cars.
The strategic partnership covers the legal requirements, standards, norms, and court rulings that still pose major challenges for all market players. For authorities and vehicle registration services, the challenge is to find a safe and cost-efficient approach to autonomous driving licensing in public transport, typically in the form of laws and technologies.
Kontrol, based in Linz, translates and digitalizes complex legal regulations and relevant road traffic standards and regulations into machine-readable language. The company’s KoPilot technology checks whether the integrated driver assistance functions are performing in accordance with the law.
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The partnership key to the updating of the systems. Infineon and Kontrol can provide necessary regulatory updates for customers at any time running on the Aurix microcontrollers to ensure road safety is in line with current standards. Together, the two companies can safely integrate the digital driver’s license for autonomous vehicles into intelligent driver assistance systems.
Kontrol’s technology is applied in vehicles, drones and robots. The company is working with leading firms such as Thales, Bosch, and Magna and has a team of over 20 individuals based in Austria, Germany, China, and the USA.
“The software technology from our ecosystem partner Kontrol implemented on the dependable Aurix microcontroller architecture is a step forward to enhance the trust in autonomous driving technology by a deterministic, algorithm-based solution which is able to offer legal based, regulatory boundary conditions for vehicles on the road,” said Lars Wemme, Vice President ADAS, Chassis & EE-Architecture at Infineon.
“We are very pleased to have a strong partner at our side who trusts in our technology and believes in the future of autonomous driving,” said Andreas Lauringer, CEO and co-founder of Kontrol. “With Infineon as the world’s leading expert in automotive semiconductors, together we can make tomorrow’s mobility safer.”
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