Qualcomm And BMW Partner On Snapdragon Ride Pilot For AI-Assisted Driving

BMW and Qualcomm have officially revealed the Snapdragon Ride Pilot, their vision of what next-generation automated driver assistance and safety can be. Snapdragon Ride Pilot is currently set to debut in the all-new 2026 BMW iX3 SUV.

Underpinning the iX3 on the automated driving (AD) front, Snapdragon Ride Pilot has been developed over a three-year partnership between Qualcomm and BMW. The core of the system is BMW’s new central intelligent computer dubbed the "Superbrain of Automated Driving" (SAD, did they not workshop this?), which is powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon Ride SoCs. This new superbrain boasts 20 times the computing power of BMW's previous gen systems.

The system is built on a co-developed software stack, with Qualcomm providing the perception stack and BMW contributing the drive policy engine. This setup is said to ensure a tightly-integrated system that can meet or exceed safety standards, such as the entry-level ...