That means even today’s laggards have time to catch up.After interviewing executives and technology experts and reviewing announced plans, Bloomberg has taken a snapshot of the race to develop the self-driving car. That looks unlikely, but the company has 500 people developing its own self-driving technology. That group, led today by former Carnegie Robotics co-founder Eric Meyhofer, has spearheaded Uber’s self-driving car program. The lawsuit revealed that Anthony Levandowski, who co-founded Otto after working on Google's self-driving car, then headed Uber's driverless-car development effort, had downloaded copies of work emails and sensitive files at Google. Baidu’s initial self-driving cars will be developed with China’s Chery Automobile Co.Baidu also has a 2021 target to produce Level 4 autonomous cars in partnership with Chinese automaker BAIC Group.

Source: Economic Times May 08, 2018 04:07 UTC