BlackBerry to collaborate on self-driving safety platform development

BlackBerry announced a partnership with Renovo and Damon Motorcycles, an electric motorcycle company, and announced that it is working on a self-driving data management platform and an advanced crash warning system for electric motorcycles.

BlackBerry Limited is a company that licenses the name, not TCL in China, which is developing the BlackBerry series of Android smartphones. The company is currently targeting enterprise system software and the Internet of Things, and has already installed QNX software on 150 million vehicles as a technology for autonomous vehicles.

Lenovo, an autonomous driving technology development company that announced this collaboration, developed the powertrain of the autonomous vehicle Leon announced by Stanford University. The collaboration is to integrate BlackBerry’s QNX technology with Lenovo’s Insight technology to develop a development platform to expand the capabilities of autonomous driving safety systems. Accordingly, the vehicle operating system transmits data to the cloud, and it is intended to enable the integration of autonomous vehicles into future urban infrastructures such as ADAS and smart cities.

Electric motorcycle manufacturer Damon Motorcycle integrates QNX software technology into advanced sensor systems for motorcycles. Damon processes radar, camera, and other sensor information equipped with a CoPilot warning system developed based on QNX on the limited production model Hypersport Pro Electric Superbike to be introduced at CES 2020. It detects the moving speed and direction of all objects around the host vehicle. And if there is any object approaching the vehicle, it warns the rider.

These are all technologies that have not been found in cars and motorcycles until now. It reminds us of a future where all mobile networks and AI autonomous driving control deployments will become commonplace. Related information can be found here .