FRANKFURT (AFP) - German automakers Audi, BMW and Daimler are in chats with Amazon and Microsoft over the likelihood of them taking minority stakes in the Here advanced mapping benefit, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday, citing a senior Daimler official.
"We are conversing with Amazon, Microsoft and numerous automobile creators," the Wall Street Journal cited Thomas Weber, who is charge of innovative work at Daimler, as saying in a meeting.
"We require a cloud supplier to handle the colossal measures of information made by Here and its clients. We haven't taken any choices yet."
Audi, the extravagance arm of Volkswagen, BMW and Daimler obtained Berlin-based Here from Nokia for EUR2.5 billion ($2.8 billion) a year ago as a major aspect of an arrangement to construct a stage for self-driving autos associated with the Internet.
Not long after subsequent to obtaining the organization, the auto producers started drawing nearer tech firms and other car creators about joining the endeavor as vital financial specialists, the daily paper reported.
Here is building up a top notch, constant guide that could be conveyed in self-driving autos.
It is more than a customary course finding or route administration, yet a superior quality, 3-D computerized representation of streets, parkways and their surroundings that is continually redesigned as autos associated with the administration transfer information about movement, climate and street conditions to the cloud continuously.
That data then gets to be accessible progressively for different drivers.
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