According to foreign media reports, the race for fully automatic driving continues, bringing unprecedented challenges and opportunities to the automotive industry. Although the industry has not yet achieved full automatic driving, the technology to promote full automatic driving has been running on highways for many years. At present, most cars are equipped with blind spot monitoring, lane departure warning and parking assistance, and enhance safety and driver assistance functions. All these functions will prompt the automotive industry to adopt and accept fully automatic driving vehicles.

With the development of autopilot, BASF, the leading chemical supplier in the automotive industry, is considering how to make use of materials and research solutions to supplement and promote the technology of automatic driving which has been listed and is in the process of research and development. The following are 5 contributions that materials can make to the safety and design of self driving cars: