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1.APPLE

Apple's CEO Tim Cook has confirmed it is developing a self-driving car system. Although Cook didn't discuss what aspect of driverless car technology it would be working on, whether it be creating supporting software, licencing or building a car itself.

"We're focusing on autonomous systems and clearly one purpose of autonomous systems is self-driving cars, [but] there are others," Cook told Bloomberg. "It's probably one of the most difficult AI projects to work on."

Historically, Apple has kept its plans for autonomous technology under wraps, however in a leaked document which surfaced last year, details of a change in leadership within the car team suggested that Bob Mansfield, a hardware specialist, was put in charge last year.

A few images have also been leaked on rumour websites, reportedly showing images of test vehicles, although their legitimacy is not yet known.

2.intel

This year, Intel bought Israel-based driverless car technology firm Mobileye for $15.3 billion (£12.5 billion), meaning Intel will pay $63.54 (£52.39) per share.

Intel and Mobileye are already in partnership together with BMW to put a fleet of 40 autonomous BMW 7 Series cars on the road by the end of 2017.

This announcement came some months after the initial partnership began in July 2016, when BMW, Intel, and Mobileye announced plans to produce an open platform for driverless cars by 2021

3.BMW
 Previously, BMW has teamed up with Baidu to produce a self-driving car designed specifically for the Chinese market. However, in November 2016 the partnership was called off. While no clear reasons were given for the dissolving of the partnership, according to Fortune BMW's China CEO Olaf Kastner said "we now have found that the development pace and the ideas of the two companies are a little different."

Before this BMW tested driverless cars in 2011 with a BMW 330i being tested on a closed circuit and later in 2014 with a 6 Series Gran Coupe. This year BMW used its i3 model in tests in Bejing.

Many BMW cars also have ConnectedDrive (a driver assistance system) and intelligent parking, driving and vision. 

4.AUDI

While the partnership between Audi and graphics cards maker Nvidia is nothing new, more recently, Audi has been using Nvidia's AI platform to intelligently monitor of road conditions and to deliver technology for its autonomous vehicles.
This continued partnership will see Audi and Nvidia develop a 'Level 4' autonomous vehicle - a car capable of driving entirely autonomously.
5.google
Late last year The Information reported that Google planned to stop the development of its own driverless car to pursue partnerships with existing car makers. The reports suggested the Google aimed to develop cars with known car manufacturers which will include some self-driving capabilities. 

However, days later Google's parent company Alphabet announced Waymo, its new self-driving technology company aiming to create software and sensor technology for driverless cars.

Google has been working on driverless cars for several years and last year unveiled a working prototype. What's more, Google has also equipped other car manufacturers with driverless car technologies such as the Toyota Prius, Audi TT and Lexus RX450h. Google's own autonomous vehicle uses Bosch sensors and other equipment from LG, and Continental.
In 2014, Google revealed their concept of a driverless car, without a steering wheel or control pedals with plans of making these cars available for public purchase by 2020, although highly unlikely now.

6.TESLA

Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk claims that all Tesla cars will be fully driverless in two years. Tesla already has a semi-automative car, namely the Tesla 'S' model that can train each other using ‘deep learning’ algorithms sent out and processed by the fleet’s sensors.

This information teaches the cars about in-lane changing and spotting obstacles and should improve day-by-day.
7.volvo

Earlier this year, Volvo launched 'Drive Me UK', an extensive UK-based autonomous driving trial, involving up to 100 driverless cars being driven on real roads by real people in 2017.

Volvo has been heavily involved in producing and testing driverless cars in real life situations:

"There will be driverless vehicles, vehicles without steering wheels, used just like an elevator, just to go up and down a shaft," says Erik Coelingh, senior technical lead at Volvo. "But that's not the type of building that we're intending to design.

"We intend to design luxury vehicles that you can either drive yourself or be driven. So there will always be a person in the vehicle that has the ability to drive."



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