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Shift: A podcast about mobility

Ahead of IAA, Anshuman Saxena unpacks Qualcomm’s big driver-assistance ambitions

Shift: A podcast about mobility

Automotive News

Business

4.637 Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Anshuman Saxena, vice president and head of ADAS and automated driving at Qualcomm, details the company’s long-simmering efforts to deliver driver-assistance technology on a global scale. Underway for years, those efforts will debut aboard BMW’s Neue Klasse platform during the IAA mobility showcase in Munich next month. Saxena discusses that development, plus broader driver-assistance plans at Qualcomm. The company has roughly $45 billion in expected auto industry revenue, and roughly a...

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0:00.0

Shift listeners like you have access to the lowest price for Automotive News Congress 2025 on September 11th.

0:07.2

This year's featured speakers include Hyundai Motor Group executive chair, U-sun Chung,

0:12.8

Hasbury Automotive CEO David Halt, and General Motors CEO, Mary Barra.

0:17.9

We are investing in America.

0:19.4

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0:20.4

That's creating IP in this country.

0:21.9

And I think, you know, the United States needs to lead in key technologies.

0:25.2

To get the lowest price for the events, go to auto news.com slash events, select

0:29.7

Auto News Congress, and type in the discount code A-N-Shift, all one word, all caps.

0:36.5

We'll see you on September 11th in Detroit.

0:44.8

Hi, everybody. Welcome to Shift, a podcast about mobility. I'm Pete Bigelow, your host and

0:49.8

reporter at the Automotive News. This week, I'm pleased to welcome Anshamon Saxena, Qualcomm's vice president and head of

0:58.1

ADAS and automated driving products as my guest.

1:02.3

Anshamon's going to give us a sneak preview of what Qualcomm will unveil, along with BMW

1:07.3

on the automakers, Noia Klausa platform at IAA Mobility in Munich next week.

1:13.7

It has been a pretty nice journey in Colcom, building up step by step, the brakes that we have put for the foundation for driver assistance systems and automated driving.

1:24.2

But first, we've got to look at this week's headlines from around the mobility sphere. And for that, I am joined by my colleague Hannah Lutz. Hannah Lutz. Hannah, it's been a while

1:31.7

since you've been on shift. How are you today? Hi, Pete. I'm doing well. Thanks for having me.

1:36.0

Good. Welcome back. Yes. So this week's headlines, I guess I can say, are homegrown a bit.

1:42.2

They start with automotive news celebrating a big milestone this

1:46.4

past week. Fill us in on what's been going on in downtown Detroit. Yeah. So if you've been

1:54.0

following automotive news, it's hard to miss that this year is our centennial. We've been doing

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