Nakul Duggal, Group GM, Automotive and Industrial & Embedded IoT, Qualcomm and Dr Mihiar Ayoubi, SVP Development Driving Experience, BMW Group
Ride Pilot, an automated driving system that demonstrates how distributed computing operates in production vehicles. The system, which debuted in the BMW iX3 at IAA Mobility 2025, has been validated for use in more than 60 countries with expected expansion to over 100 countries in 2026.
The three-year collaborative effort involved over 1,400 specialists from Germany, the USA, Sweden, Romania and the BMW AD Test Centre in the Czech Republic.
“ Our collaboration with BMW’ s worldclass engineering team has been truly transformative, enabling us to build a world-class system that is now available to bring the safety and comfort benefits of automated driving to consumers across all regions and vehicle tiers,” says Nakul Duggal, Group General Manager, Automotive and Industrial & Embedded IoT at Qualcomm Technologies.
BMW’ s central intelligent computer, powered by Snapdragon Ride SoCs, offers 20 times higher computing power than the previous generation. The system uses high-definition 8M pixel and 3M pixel cameras and radar sensors that enable 360-degree coverage.
The architecture applies data centre principles to mobile computing:
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