Over the past several years, we’ve seen a huge jump in the popularity of vehicle autonomy and today, it seems like self-driving cars are all anyone is talking about. But it’s not just the major car manufacturers that are diving into the robotic industry – there are also a number of tech companies working to develop successful driving technology.
Here, our fleet fuel card company decided to gather up all of the companies working on self-driving cars to give you an idea of how prominent this business is:
- AImotive
- Aptiv
- Argo
- Audi
- Aurora
- Baidu
- Bosch
- BMW
- Cisco
- Clarion
- CMU Navlab
- Continental
- Daimler
- Delphi
- Faraday Future
- Ford
- General Motors
- Green Hills Software
- Honda
- Hyundai
- Intel
- Keolis
- Lyft
- Mercedes-Benz
- Navya
- Nissan
- NuTonomy
- Nvidia
- PSA
- Qualcomm
- Renault
- Renesas Electronics
- Tesla
- Transdev
- Torc
- Toyota
- Volkswagen
- Volvo
- Waymo
- Uber
- The University of Waterloo
- ZF
Companies in the Lead
In an article by Business Insider, the company shares research done by Navigant Research to determine which companies are most slated to bring Level 2, Level 3, and Level 4 self-driving cars to the market in the next 10 years.
The research took into account vision, go-to-market strategy, partners, production strategy, technology, product capability, sales, marketing & distribution, product quality and reliability, product portfolio, and staying power, and rated each company out of 100.
Based on the above criteria, these are the top 5 companies most likely to get self-driving cars on the road first:
- Ford
- General Motors
- Renault
- Daimler
- Volkswagen
