Visteon and ZongMu Technology sign co-operation agreement on autonomous driving solutions

Visteon, a supplier of automotive cockpit electronics, and ZongMu Technology, a China-based supplier of advanced driving assistance systems, have signed a strategic cooperation agreement to develop Level 3-plus autonomous driving solutions.

Under the agreement, Visteon and ZongMu will combine their strengths to jointly develop a self-parking solution integrating Visteon’s DriveCore autonomous driving platform and ZongMu’s autonomous parking system.

Markus Schupfner, chief technology officer for Visteon, says the cooperative agreement with ZongMu supports Visteon’s commitment to collaborate with “highly respected technology partners” to advance autonomous driving in the fast-growing China market. 

Schupfner says: “Our selection of ZongMu as a technology partner in fully autonomous parking is based on its product solutions and technological capabilities, and will help accelerate implementation of serial production of final products.”

Tang Rui, founder and CEO of ZongMu Technology, says: “As a global leading technology company, Visteon has made a lot of active investment in autonomous driving.

“We look forward to collaborating with Visteon, following a pragmatic and creative approach to further define the product and rigorously create a viable Level 4 autonomous driving product application.”

Introduced in January and shown recently at the Beijing Motor Show, Visteon’s DriveCore is a complete technology platform consisting of the hardware, in-vehicle middleware and PC-based software toolset needed to develop machine learning algorithms for autonomous driving applications of Level 3 and above.

DriveCore can provide automakers a fail-safe domain controller, with a high degree of computing power scalability, which supports the integration of data from multiple camera, Lidar and radar sensors.

ZongMu Technology’s parking product line covers a wide range of products, including high-definition panoramic parking assistance, intelligent parking warning, automatic parking, remote parking and autonomous parking.

ZongMu sats it is “committed to creating a full range of serial production parking applications”.

These include a fully autonomous parking solution that automatically parks the vehicle in the nearest parking space, or the space defined by a “smart” parking lot, after the passenger arrives at the destination.

When the passenger is ready to depart, the vehicle will reach the area designated by the passenger for pickup.