Findings to the acceptance of advanced driver assistance systems, E-mobility and automated driving.

German trucking companies, logistics specialists and transport companies were surveyed on topics such as digitalization, automation, vehicle technologies and general conditions in the industry.

Digital, intelligent, future-oriented: When implementing Industry 4.0, Continental is pursuing a holistic approach that connects and revolutionizes the entire production process chain.

Software Driving Planner enables highly automated driving on motorways.

As vehicles become smarter, increasingly automated, and more sustainable, their architecture is changing from distributed to centralized structures. This enables comprehensive optimization of vehicle architectures as well as upgradeability and updatability over the entire service life of the vehicle.

To ensure Seamless Mobility, numerous technical prerequisites must be fulfilled.

From Vision to Perception: How safety and assistance systems reliably detect hazards and obstacles.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is used to learn required behavior from data. AI can be used as early as at the data acquisition stage to identify driving scenarios of specific interest in the raw dataset. This is how Big Data becomes Smart Data.

A conventional commercial vehicle is on the move for about nine hours a day, that means only about a third of the day. The limiting factor is the driver, who is restricted by drivers' working hours. A fully automated vehicle, on the contrary, can operate almost around the clock on certain routes. As a result, the actual benefit is significantly greater than that of a passenger car - a fully automated truck immediately generates real value, which is reflected in the total cost of ownership (TCO), being a reduced by a third. Fully automated trucks are therefore a true economic factor.

Whether and when autonomous driving is possible on European roads is decided to a large extent by the United Nations. Their draft laws regulate the industry, provide the legal framework, and create global standards.

Historical study by corporate historian Prof. Paul Erker sheds light on Continental in the Third Reich.