General Motors and Carnegie Mellon University have announced a new collaborative research lab (CRL) and a renewed commitment to work jointly on technologies that will accelerate the emerging field of autonomous driving – a family of electronics and software technologies that could influence the way drivers and their vehicles interact in the future.
Go deeper with GlobalData
Discover B2B Marketing That Performs
Combine business intelligence and editorial excellence to reach engaged professionals across 36 leading media platforms.
The research lab is being established as a five-year, US$5m agreement and will operate as an extension of GM’s global research & development network at Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh. Faculty from the university’s school of computer science and college of engineering will participate.
Automaker and university have a lengthy and successful history of working together on autonomous and robotic technologies and the latest move is seen as a natural next step toward achieving mutual goals.
GM and Carnegie Mellon last November wond first place in the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge, a competition between driverless vehicles over a 55-mile course of urban and suburban roadways held in Victorville, California.
“Research in this new lab will focus on creating and maturing the underlying technologies required to build the autonomous vehicle of the future,” said Raj Rajkumar, Carnegie Mellon professor of electrical and computer engineering and co-director of the new CRL.
“Autonomous vehicles will change the face of transportation by reducing deaths and injuries from automobile accidents and increasing the convenience and comfort of vehicles.”
