Mercedes setting up its personal working and navigation programs

Mercedes-Benz on Tuesday supplied perception into plans to ship in-house-developed working and navigation programs for use throughout its lineup within the years forward.

Many automakers nowadays depend on off-the-shelf programs like Linux and QNX, and extra lately Google Android. On the other hand, switching to an in-house gadget supplies automakers with better regulate and versatility, and more and more, new monetary alternatives.

Mercedes began paintings on its working gadget, dubbed MB.OS, in 2021, and on Tuesday the automaker stated the gadget shall be presented across the center of the last decade in a next-generation compact automotive lineup in accordance with the MMA platform. The primary MMA-based automotive has already been noticed checking out.

MB.OS will quilt a large spectrum of car domain names together with infotainment, self-driving era, convenience, powertrains, and charging. As a result of in-house construction, Mercedes can have complete regulate over updates and upgrades, in addition to the protection of any private knowledge.

Mercedes-Benz Working Machine (MB.OS)

“We made the verdict to be the architects of our personal working gadget—a novel chip-to-cloud structure that leverages its complete get right of entry to to our cars’ {hardware} and device elements,” Ola Källenius, Mercedes’ CEO, stated in a commentary.

The brand new OS can even supply Mercedes with new alternatives to develop revenues, for example by means of providing subscriptions or one-off upgrades to virtual options that may be added after the acquisition of the automobile. Mercedes has already presented subscriptions, together with one to spice up efficiency on positive EVs.

An in-house OS can even make it more uncomplicated for Mercedes to ship a consumer revel in suited for its personal cars and consumers. An instance is the navigation gadget Mercedes is setting up for its OS, which is able to depend on knowledge equipped by means of Google Maps however characteristic Mercedes’ personal interface. This shall be in particular useful for EVs, because the navigation gadget will be capable to supply exact knowledge on ultimate vary as it’ll have get right of entry to to all automobile knowledge, together with state of fee and effort intake.

Mercedes on Tuesday additionally introduced plans to improve its Power Pilot Degree 3 self-driving gadget. Power Pilot already allows a automobile to maintain itself on make a selection highways, albeit most effective at speeds of as much as 37 mph. Mercedes stated its final purpose for the gadget is to have it serve as at speeds of as much as 80 mph, although timing wasn’t discussed. The highways the place Power Pilot lately purposes are restricted to Germany and Nevada.