Continental Automotive drives into new age of intelligent transport systems
Leading research and development company in automated driving is working on projects to tackle chronic traffic congestion
There is a way out of every global nightmare – including chronic traffic congestion. This is the work goal of technology company Continental Automotive, one of the leading companies in research and development (R&D) in automated driving.
“We are creating a whole transport ecosystem that is moving towards the age of automated connected driving,” says Lo Kien Foh, managing director of Continental Automotive Singapore.
Lo’s commitment is excellent news for Asian businesses, especially for original equipment manufacturers (OEM) in the vehicle production sector, local governments and universities.
This is because a large part of the R&D work of Continental globally will be increasingly conducted by its Singapore site.
As one of the group’s largest R&D centres across the region, Continental Automotive Singapore’s 16,250 square metre research facility along Boon Keng Road houses a multicultural pool of talent comprising experts in software, hardware, mechanical and other engineering fields.
Complementing the group’s strategy to transform the Singapore office into a regional R&D hub, Continental acquired Singapore-based mobility intelligence provider Quantum Inventions (QI) in July this year. The acquisition integrated into the group about 120 employees from QI’s offices in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia, and specialists from the QI Development Centre in India. This development puts Continental a step ahead in the industry, specifically in areas such as city data, including next-generation navigation systems that are highly responsive to real-time traffic information.
