Driving Planner: A Look into the Future
- Innovative software predictively calculates complex driving maneuvers
- Driving Planner allows highly automated driving at level 3
Continental presents a new software solution that enables highly automated driving at level 3. This means that vehicles can master certain driving tasks without intervention and monitoring by the driver. Especially on motorways and expressways, driver assistance systems will increasingly take over semi-autonomous tasks in the future and relieve the driver in decisive situations. The Driving Planner combines the driving skills of a racing driver with the computational skills of a math genius: the software system can calculate the possible traffic situations up to numerous seconds in advance and derive precise decisions from them in order to cope with complex driving maneuvers quickly, concisely and autonomously.
Continental's Driving Planner offers unprecedented possibilities: The innovative software module allows the combination of longitudinal and transverse movements in a harmonious, intelligent and closely timed interaction. Previously available systems – adaptive cruise control and lane change assist – plan longitudinal and transverse movements largely independently. The integrated longitudinal and transverse planning is based on physical driving models and represents a major evolutionary step towards autonomous driving. The software system is close to series production and ready for use; production can start as early as 2024.