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Embotech and BMW say Automated Driving In-Plant has moved 1 million newly built vehicles across four factories in Germany and the U.K. The partners report about 3,500 vehicle movements per day and availability above 99.5%, with infrastructure-mounted lidar and offboard planning guiding otherwise unmodified cars. Those operating figures come from the companies; BMW plans a further rollout, including its Spartanburg, South Carolina, plant in 2027.
BMW says Oxford is the fourth plant using the system, after Dingolfing, Leipzig and Regensburg, and logged more than 53,000 automated movements there over the past year. Sensors in the plant, rather than added to each car, guide vehicles through defined production and logistics routes. The million-movement milestone is factory operation, not a claim that these cars drive themselves on public roads.