The automaker Volkswagen group has joined hands with  Microsoft, to enhance its capabilities in the realm of autonomous driving. 

The carmaker massively lags behind other carmakers in this regard and hence tackling this issue by enabling its Car.Software organisation to collaborate with Microsoft which will build a cloud-based automated driving platform on the Redmond based company's intelligent cloud platform dubbed Microsoft Azure. 

This partnership makes sense as Microsoft and Volkswagen have been strategic partners since 2018 on the Automotive Cloud which has enabled the digital transformation of Europe's largest automotive group.

 Dirk Hilgenberg, CEO of the Car.Software Organisation, said, "As we transform Volkswagen Group into a digital mobility provider, we are looking to continuously increase the efficiency of our software development. We are building the Automated Driving Platform with Microsoft to simplify our developers' work through one scalable and data-based engineering environment.  He further added, "By combining our comprehensive expertise in the development of connected driving solutions with Microsoft's cloud and software engineering know-how, we will accelerate the delivery of safe and comfortable mobility services."

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