Topics self-driving cars | Robotics | artificial intelligence
Companies working on AVs:CURRENT STATE
- Tesla has accumulated 1.3 billion miles in Autopilot mode. Founder Elon Musk has promised that by the end of 2020, there would be one million fully autonomous cars.
- Waymo, a Google-funded technology company, began working on the project in January 2009. The company has tested its vehicles by driving over 10 million miles on roads and 7 billion miles in simulation to date.
- Other major contributors include Audi, BMW, Daimler, GM, Nissan, Volvo, Bosch, Continental, Mobileye, Valeo, Velodyne, Nvidia and Ford to mention a few
Source: University of Michigan study, CB insights