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IDrive launches $1,500 L2+ autonomous driving software stack for automakers

IDrive launched IDrive Autonomy Assisted Driving, a licensable L2+ software stack for automakers at $1,500 per car.

AI News Feed · 2026-09-12 06:22

The platform is an L2+ system, which IDrive describes as the market hot spot. L2+ sits between Level 2 partial automation and Level 3 conditional automation. It allows hands-free driving while the human driver remains responsible for the vehicle, a setup often summarized as "eyes-on, hands-off." The technology combines crowdsourced mapping and multi-camera arrays to enable hands-free driving on long stretches of highway. It also supports automatic lane changes, traffic jam assistance, and continuous driver monitoring.

Vehicles sold with IDrive Autonomy Assisted Driving will include the intelligence, software, and camera hardware from IDrive. Rather than selling a complete autonomous hardware kit, IDrive is providing what it calls the "brains" for self-driving. The system is built on a foundation model that has been trained and continues to be trained, according to TechRadar. The company says the platform is already being tested in the field.

"The industry has spent years chasing the dream of full self-driving, but FSD is an entirely different problem," said Raghu Kulkarni, CEO of IDrive. "You are not just solving a perception and driving problem, you are taking on an enormous safety, validation, regulatory and liability burden. That makes a fully autonomous system extremely difficult to commercialize and even harder to license as a general-purpose product." Kulkarni added that IDrive believes L2+ is where the real opportunity is today. "Automakers want better driver assistance, but they don't want to reinvent the entire autonomy stack," he said.

The launch reflects a broader push by IDrive into autonomous driving software. The company aims to fill a gap for automakers that want to offer self-driving features without developing the entire system internally. The L2+ approach is considered a sweet spot because many drivers prefer not to hand over total control to an autonomous system. TechRadar reported that the licensable stack is intended to give companies a shortcut to delivering self-driving technology to customers.