CONTINENTAL Nov 12, 2014
- New automotive R&D centre for Surround View is inaugurated today.
- New facility provides capacity beyond 90 employees.
Lewes, November 12, 2014. The international automotive supplier Continental is celebrating the grand opening of its new automotive research and development centre in Lewes, East Sussex, today. In Lewes, Continental develops Surround View systems which provide 360-degree detection of what is happening around a vehicle. The new "Pannett's Building" provides additional offices, meeting rooms and a workshop, as well as a show room for vehicles with Surround View systems. "With this additional building, we mark an important step in our investment in Lewes and the Surround View segment," said Karl Haupt, Head of the Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) Business Unit in the Continental Chassis & Safety Division. "By the end of 2014, 60 employees will be working for Continental in Lewes. The new building extends capacity beyond 90 employees at this location" Ian Saward, Managing Director for Continental in Lewes, added. Over three quarters of the employees are research and development engineers. Continental is especially employing software and algorithm developers for next generation systems. The location in Lewes has a history dating back 25 years, having grown continuously over the period.
Surround View - the next step towards accident-free and automated driving
The monitoring of the totality of the area all around a vehicle is an essential next step towards accident-free driving. Solutions by the company are already being driven in about four million vehicles throughout the world. Future Surround View systems, in development today, will provide 3D views to the driver of vehicle, improving situational awareness and making driving safer and more comfortable. Whereas first generation systems showed the vehicle's surroundings to the driver, future systems will warn, brake and steer if the driver does not react. From 2018 onwards, fully automated parking based on cameras can be realized. "The development of intelligent Surround View systems for cars will also represent a major contribution to automated driving," said Wolfgang Fey, head of the Surround View segment at Continental.
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