The future is clearly racing towards an era of autonomous cars. Not only the traditional car-makers, investors, startups but renowned tech companies are also dipping their fingers into autonomous car R&D. Research has suggested that the self-driving market will see a prominent rise from 2019 to 2026, as it aims to touch a revenue base of $556.67 billion.
In this article, we list 10 such tech pioneers that have shown interest in the development of self-driving cars and are working aggressively towards it.
1| Intel
The prominent chipmakers joined forces with Mobileye as well as Waymo to provide computing power needed to automate a driverless car. Intel created Automated Driving Group (ADG) in 2016 and invested $250 million to auto tech investments. Further, in 2017, Intel invested $15.3 billion for joining forces with Mobileye.
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2| Apple
In early 2018, this multinational tech company registered 27 self-driving cars with California’s Department of Motor vehicles and currently, they have 66 driverless minivans that are on road in California. On July 2018, this tech giant received a patent for bringing in personalization features in autonomous vehicles. The company had announced about Project Titan, the self-driving car for which is hired former Waymo and NASA engineer, Bob Mansfield to head this project.
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3| Cisco
One of the worldwide leaders in IT and networking, Cisco is constructing data collection and layer of analysis in the self-driving industry. At CES 2018, Cisco announced its the partnership with carmaker company Hyundai to help enable over the air (faster-than-ever OTA) updates. Earlier, Cisco had worked with the state of Michigan’s Department of Transportation on a self-driving initiative known as “Cisco Connect Roadways”.
4| Amazon
Over these years, Amazon has spent billions in search of better solutions for delivery including the explored delivery by drone called the Prime Air. In the year 2016, Amazon was granted a patent for a system to navigate roadways in autonomous cars. It also received a permit from California DMV to start testing driverless cars on road in early 2017. At CES 2018, the company announced its partnership with Toyota for developing self-driving cars.
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5| Bosch
This leading multinational engineering and electronics company joined hands with Mercedes in 2017 help in developing level 4 (high automation) and level 5 (full automation) cars.
The engineering team at Bosch are working to develop core algorithms and software components that mainly focuses on three components that are perception, localization, and planning so that the gap between the sensor physics and the mechanical actuation of the vehicle can be bridged in order to make the robot on wheels possible.
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6| Huawei
This leading global provider of information and communications technology infrastructure and smart devices last year test drove driverless car Porsche Panamera that is equipped with Mate 10 Pro technology where a smartphone is used to control a driving car at Mobile World Congress. It has also joined hands with Audi to develop level 4 self-driving technology cars that will be sold in China. Cellular technology called as Cellular V2X is one of its latest innovations which was announced in the Mobile World Congress, 2017 where it has partnered with Vodafone.
7| Nvidia
NVDIA DRIVE AGX is a computing platform for autonomous vehicles that serve as a brain for autonomous vehicles. At CES 2016, it unveiled the Nvidia Drive PX2, a platform designed with deep learning, computer vision and sensor fusion for self-driving vehicles. Further, it joined hands with Baidu and Tesla and later with Bosch and Toyota for developing autonomous cars. It has also partnered with Paccar, a truck-maker company to develop self-driving trucks.
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8| Uber
In the year 2016, Uber confronted about Otto, a self-driving truck design to automate material transport but later it was shut down. Uber faced a lot of controversies during these years regarding the driving of autonomous cars. Recently, CEO Dara Khosrowshahi announced a plan to work jointly with Toyota on developing the anonymous vehicles.
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9| Samsung
In 2017, Samsung got approval from South Korea for testing self-driving cars on the road. The cars are well equipped with cameras and sensors and are basically based on Hyundai vehicles. At CES 2018, the company revealed a new technology platform, known as Drvline that is designed to build customized driverless cars.
10| Microsoft
This tech giant is not only working for developing autonomous cars but is also supplying Microsoft Azure cloud services to other companies who are working towards developing self-driving cars. In 2015, the company made collaborations with Volvo to carry R&D in autonomous vehicles. Further, in 2016, it joined hands with Toyota to support research in various grounds like AI, AV, robotics, etc.
