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CONFERENCE REPORT




                        3  International ATZ Conference
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                          Driver Assistance Systems –



                        From Assistance to Automated Driving




























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          The long-term goals and benefits of automated driving functions are not being called into question,
          but the first market launches do deserve closer inspection, as happened at the ATZ Driver Assistance
            Systems Conference from 26  to 27  April 2017 in Frankfurt on Main (Germany). The conference was
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            supported by Continental and Etas.



          BREAKING UP ANTIQUATED             “We are at a tipping point”, said    scalability of functions, the ability to
          STRUCTURES                        Dr. Thomas M. Müller in his opening   update via the Cloud, and make systems
                                            speech. The new Audi electronic boss   “reusable”. “I am astonished to see that
          Automotive manufacturers are equipping   focussed his talk on technical challenges   many suppliers have not understood this
          themselves for a new age of driving,   that can only be mastered with far-  yet”, said  Müller, who moved from Volvo
          mainly enabling functionality in defined   reaching decisions on a management   to Audi in December 2016 to take the
          situations where danger is imminent.   level and with a re-structuring of auto-  position of Head of Electronics there.
          Today, the driver has to continuously   motive process chains. Antiquated struc-  Several of the important and established
          monitor the helpful assistance functions   tures need to be broken up. “We need to   suppliers could see new players from the
          such as lane control and lane change   get on with implementing the much-dis-  start-up scene joining them. Other confe-
          assistance, without any form of distrac-  cussed separation of hardware and soft-  rence participants in Frankfurt voiced
          tion. As early as the end of this year,    ware”, Müller emphasised. This will only   their conviction that “the cards will be
          the first finely delineated and very much   be possible with completely new, so-  shuffled anew”. Security and big data
          non-self-explanatory levels will permit   called end-to-end on-board network   knowledge are two further important
          the first drive distractions.      architectures that will finally allow the   topics that include deep learning and
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