"Cooperating with leading research institutions is of the utmost importance to us. It is an important building block that will enable us to measure up to the persistent demands calling on us to shape the mobility of the future and acquire qualified employees and executives for tomorrow," explains Kurt Lehmann, corporate technology officer at Continental.

Continental expects the partnership to yield findings on the use of artificial intelligence methods, including in the areas of automated and autonomous driving, the improvement of future vehicle access systems, accident minimization through intelligent warning systems, and the sensitive dialog that will take place in the future between drivers and vehicles - between humans and their machines.

"I am delighted with this new, important collaboration between Continental and our world-leading Vision and Information Engineers. I look forward to it underpinning technology developments for mobility of the future", says Lionel Tarassenko, Head of the Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford.

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