Stellantis accelerates automated driving innovation through Hi-Drive European Flagship Project
At the Hi-Drive Final Event in Brussels, Stellantis showcased its latest automated driving technologies, demonstrating how next-generation systems can manage complex traffic and real-world driving conditions.
Hi-Drive is Europe’s flagship project dedicated to advancing vehicle automation and enabling higher levels of automated driving across diverse environments. The program focuses on expanding automated vehicles’ capabilities while ensuring they operate safely, reliably, and efficiently in everyday conditions.
Anne Laliron, SVP of Technology Research at Stellantis, said, “Hi-Drive is a great example of open innovation, giving us the opportunity to develop and test automated driving technologies with leading European partners. By working together, we can deliver practical and reliable solutions that make everyday mobility safer and easier for everyone.”
As part of Hi-Drive, Stellantis showcased two Living Lab vehicles:
- Peugeot e-2008: equipped with a rooftop sensor module including eight Lidars, nine cameras, four radars, and V2X short-range and cellular connectivity. This vehicle collects 360° environmental data to validate automated functions in dense urban scenarios.
- MY2018 Maserati Levante demonstrating V2X communication and high-definition mapping to support real-time hazard alerts and dynamic signage recognition for safer, more informed driving.
Future highly automated vehicles, including driverless systems, require advanced connectivity. Stellantis is testing short-range and 5G cellular communication to exchange traffic and road information with other vehicles and digital infrastructure, key enablers for next-generation automated driving.
Stellantis continues to strengthen its ADAS and Automated Driving portfolio with intuitive features that support drivers today, from real-time traffic information to Level 2+ hands-free highway driving. The company is also advancing Level 4 (driverless) autonomous vehicles for robotaxi services worldwide through two parallel collaborations: one with NVIDIA, Uber, and Foxconn, and another one with Pony.ai, both focused on scalable, cost-efficient driverless mobility solutions. Both collaborations will build on Stellantis AV-Ready platforms™, which are designed for maximum flexibility to adapt to multiple passenger and commercial mobility use cases.
By investing in advanced automation technologies, Stellantis is shaping a future in which mobility is increasingly driverless, connected, and sustainable, helping create smarter cities and safer roads.