BERLIN (Reuters) – Mercedes-Benz has partnered with Google to develop branded navigation for its new MB.OS operating system, the luxury carmaker said on Wednesday.
The system will equip Mercedes-Benz cars with Google traffic information and automatic rerouting, and enable drivers to watch YouTube on the cars’ entertainment system when the car is parked or in Level 3 autonomous driving mode.
The MB.OS operating system is due to launch in the middle of the decade in vehicles on the modular architecture – or MMA – platform, which will underpin its future compact cars, and be rolled out across the product line from then on.
Google and Mercedes-Benz also agreed to explore further collaboration with Google Cloud data and artificial intelligence capabilities, the statement said.
(Reporting by Victoria Waldersee, Hyunjoo Jin in San Francisco; Editing by Rachel More)
