With a goal of making fully self-driving vehicles a reality, the new Autonomous Vehicle Computing Consortium (AVCC) officially launched this week during Arm TechCon in San Jose. 

Featuring industry leaders from automotive, automotive supply, semiconductor and computing such as Arm, DENSO, General Motors, NVIDIA, and NXP Semiconductors, AVCC look will to serve as the leading organization for autonomous computing expertise, and help solve some of the greatest challenges associated with deploying self-driving vehicles at scale.

“The future of mobility and the safe, scalable deployment of advanced driver assistance systems to fully autonomous vehicles for mass production requires unprecedented industry collaboration,” explains Dipti Vachani, senior vice president and general manager, Automotive and IoT Line of Business, Arm.

“The AVCC brings together leaders from across the automotive industry landscape to tackle complex foundational technological and computing challenges to accelerate our path to a truly autonomous future.”

The consortium will start by developing a set of recommendations of a system architecture and a computing platform that “reconciles the performance requirements of autonomous systems with the vehicle-specific requirements and limitations in terms of size, temperature range, power consumption and safety.” The goal of the recommendations is to move autonomous vehicles from today’s prototype systems to deployment at scale.

Equipped with a firm grasp on the technological complexities and obstacles to overcome for the deployment of autonomous vehicles, member companies will look to address these challenges through collaborating on technological solutions, and create an ecosystem of industry experts to focus on innovations to meet these goals.

Working groups will share ideas and study common technological challenges, helping facilitate cross-industry collaboration to help the automotive industry work together by defining, educating and publishing “for the benefit of all.”

“The massive amount of technological innovation required to power fully self-driving vehicles at scale requires collaboration at an industry level,” says Massimo Osella, AVCC chairman of the board, and lab group manager, Research & Development at General Motors.

“We are delighted to join this group of key leaders in the automotive industry. As the AVCC, we are working together to create the ‘go to’ organization for autonomous computing expertise to help bring this technology to market.”