VW plans to challenge Google with own autonomous car software
Print HAMBURG -- Volkswagen plans to develop most of the software needed for autonomous cars in-house, the head of the automaker's luxury unit Audi said on Tuesday. The automaker is not rejecting collaborations in some areas outright, said Markus Duesmann, who as well as running Audi is also on VW's management board, where he is responsible for research and development. "But we'll make the bulk of the software on our own in the future," he said during an industry event. Asked whether VW was looking to Alphabet's Google as a benchmark in software development, Duesmann said it wanted to be at l...