40+ Corporations Working On Autonomous Vehicles

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40+ Corporations Working On Autonomous Vehicles
Amazon experimenting with autonomous package delivery
Apple starting to catch up
Aptiv logs 50,000 rides and sets sights on china
Audi unveils its autonomous A8
Baidu’s Apollo platform logs 1M+ autonomous miles driven and 150+ partners
BMW-Intel-Mobileye alliance forges ahead
Bosch perfects autonomous parking with Daimler
Cisco works on building the data layer of the self-driving car movement
Continental AG takes an incremental approach

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In May 2019, self-driving software company Aptiv and ridesharing company Lyft announced a major milestone: the companies, which had been collaborating on an autonomous passenger service in Las Vegas for more than a year, had completed the 50,000th ride of the partnership.
It could also boost the development of autonomous technology, given how much information self-driving cars need to be able to process and send for analysis every second they are monitoring the road.
The goal is to develop an independent piece of autonomous technology that can then be marketed and sold to other automakers and grafted onto an existing vehicle to provide self-driving capabilities without the need for any complex, time-consuming, or expensive integration.
Additional Ford partners include Domino’s Pizza, with a partnership launched in August 2017 to develop a fleet of self-driving pizza delivery vehicles, and Postmates, to enable on-demand autonomous delivery.
In July 2016, JLR formalized plans to deploy a fleet of at least 100 research vehicles over the next four years to test self-driving and connected car technology on roadways in Britain.
In 2017, Microsoft announced it would begin offering its Azure cloud services to companies using Baidu’s Apollo self-driving platform for autonomous projects.
A few months later, it announced an investment of $2.8B in a new spin-off company, the Toyota Research Institute – Advanced Development, designed to accelerate the company’s progress towards its self-imposed deadline for achieving testing of autonomous, electric cars.
In May 2016, Uber revealed its in-house autonomous prototypes for the first time, and the company acquired self-driving truck startup Otto later in the year.
In the aftermath of the crash and the ensuing investigation, Uber suspended all of its self-driving car trials and pulled all its autonomous vehicles off the road

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