BMW plans to introduce self-driving cars to the Chinese market by 2021.

Maximilian Doemling, Senior Manager of the automated driving division at BMW Group, made the announcement at a recent artificial intelligence and robotics summit held in Shenzhen:

“If you’re expecting autonomous function where you can be on the highway, pressing the button and the car is doing everything for you, like lane changing and driving and that stuff, and you can play with a smartphone, and you’re always safe, I mean we had the big announcement with Intel and Mobileye that we will have the i-Next [BMW’s line of electric cars] in 2021.”

On July 1, BMW announced plans to partner with Intel and Mobileye to create a self-driving car that would be available to consumers by 2021.

“Our goal is already clearly defined: to be No. 1 in autonomous driving,” said BMW CEO Harald Krüger.

Intel CEO, Brian Krzanich, said the company would spend several hundred million dollars on the project.

Last December, BMW partnered with Baidu to successfully test drive an autonomous vehicle on the highways of Beijing.

Previous BMW announcements regarding self-driving cars include a vehicle with the ability to pick up its own driver at a garage, and another which could navigate a race course while drifting.

Autonomous vehicles have encountered a number of setbacks in China. Earlier this month, a Tesla driver said he would be suing the company after his vehicle collided with another vehicle while using its Autopilot feature. Meanwhile, the delay of national regulations will force testing of autonomous cars on Chinese roads.