Siemens buys self-driving software specialist
Siemens has agreed to buy Dutch self-driving software specialist Tass International for an undisclosed sum to strengthen its automotive business reports Reuters.
Tass makes software that can simulate complex traffic scenarios, validate autonomous driving and advanced driver assistance systems and replicate the impact of a car crash on a human body. It has annual turnover of around €27m and employs around 200 people.
‘Tass International is a proven leader in both integrated safety and autonomous driving, two fields of engineering that are increasingly important for the industry,’ Siemens’ Digital Factory unit chief executive Jan Mrosik said in a statement.
Siemens said it would combine Tass’s software with its own advanced simulation products as well as electronic design capabilities from recently acquired Mentor Graphics.
Siemens bought Mentor Graphics for $4.5bn earlier this year. It was its biggest industrial software acquisition.
