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“In China, Mercedes-Benz is engaging in a local cloud partnership with Tencent to support its automated driving systems. An enriched UI for automated driving functions including an advanced lane-level map view is planned.”

Tencent, really? How did that come about?

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This is how deals are done in China. You want to expose your cloud service to Chinese users? You need to partner with a Chinese company that will effectively run the cloud infrastructure, possibly run the server software, and definitely have access to all of your IP and certificates.

The real question for me is what does an ADAS system rely on the cloud for? Hopefully nothing in real time.

The concern among many eastern countries regarding cloud usage is location of data storage. ADAS system could rely on cloud for - Getting updated maps (HD in some cases) - Storing/uploading camera data for analytics/replay among other things...

> This is how deals are done in China

You seriously think deals are done differently in other countries if you are as big as Mercedes Benz?

Yes actually, I have experience running a cloud service where we had to deploy two environments: China and ROW (rest of world). AutoOEM of the same magnitude as Mercedes-Benz.

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