BMW Group, Intel and Experteye came together on July 1 2016 at the BMW Group Headquarters to express their commitment to strive for an industry standard and to define an open platform for autonomous driving. The open platform will address the "eyes off", "mind off", and "driver off" levels of automated driving and will be made available to multiple car manufacturers, as well as other industries who could also benefit from autonomous machines and deep machine learning technologies.
The companies have agreed to a set of milestones to deliver fully autonomous cars based on a common reference architecture. In the short-term, the companies will demonstrate an autonomous test drive with a highly automated driving prototype. In 2017, the platform will extend to fleets with extended autonomous test drives.