Alexander Hitzinger, board of management member for development at Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles, said, "Argo AI is technologically one of the leading companies for developing self-driving systems. Volkswagen and Ford possess enormous experience in automobile construction. Hardware and software experts in these three companies will work closely together to find optimal solutions. The closeness of this collaboration is shown by the fact that Volkswagen is bringing Autonomous Intelligent Driving (AID), with over 200 experts, into the operation. This will give Argo AI access to around 700 specialists. The AID headquarters in Munich will become the joint venture's European technological center."