The Sylpheo is a French company dedicated to the development of connectivity applications, and was now in the hands of this consortium automobile franco-japanese. He was vice-president of the branch vehicle connected services and mobility of Alliance, Ogi Redzic, who today announced this acquisition.
official Information indicate that the 40 engineers and consultants Sylpheo will be integrated in the team dealing with programs connected car and intelligent systems of the Renault-Nissan Alliance.
With this purchase, the car want to speed up the development of cars connected car and autonomous, as well as ensure a place of prominence in an emerging market that increasingly attracts investors and the interest of consumers.
Until the end of the decade, Nissan and Renault want to have on the road more than 10 cars with technology for autonomous driving.
Citing Reuters, a spokesman unidentified Renault said that the purchase of the Sylpheo aligns itself with the goal of the Alliance is to recruit about 300 engineers and specialists in the area of automation and connectivity, so as to strengthen its presence in the automotive market in france to change.
it is recalled that, in the past month of July, Nissan has launched in Japan, the minivan Serena, equipped with the system ProPILOT, capable of controlling the driving of the vehicle while it moves on a highway.
The market of cars autonomous and connected only under the eyes of car manufacturers, as is also capturing the interest of companies that were born in the bosom of the technology, such as Uber.
This controversial service digital transport asserts itself increasingly as a “heavy weight” of this new sector, and its first fleet of cars autonomous already runs through the streets of the american city of Pittsburgh (USA).
Uber has already announced its plans to bring these vehicles up to London.
The Department of Transportation of the United States however presented a proposal for a regulation of these vehicles that are leading alone.
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