This is a list of self-driving car system (SDS) suppliers and self-driving truck system (SDS) suppliers.
Light vehicles (LV) include passenger cars, whereas heavy vehicles (HV) include trucks and buses.
Driverless operation means operating vehicles without a human safety driver, that is Level 4 or 5.
Operational design domain (ODD) is the operating conditions in which the SDS can operate, which may be limited in the environment or traffic characteristics. A restricted ODD is limited by design to specific areas or industries, for example highway driving only, or private-ground operation in mine sites or ports.
Name | Vehicle partners | Country | Launch city | Date of first public road driverless operation |
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Argo AI | Ford and Volkswagen Group | USA | TBA | n/a |
Aurora | Toyota | USA | TBA | n/a |
Auto X | SAIC Motor | China | Shenzhen | January 2021 [1] |
Baidu | FAW Group [2] | China | Beijing | May 2021 [3] |
Cruise | General Motors and Honda [4] | USA | San Francisco | December 2020 [5] |
EasyMile | n/a | France | Bad Birnbach | October 2019 [6] |
Milla Group | n/a | France | Meudon la Forêt | Feb 2017 [7] |
May Mobility | Toyota | USA | Detroit | June 2018 [8] |
Mobileye | Volkswagen Group [9] | USA / Germany | Austin, Texas / Munich | TBA |
Motional | Hyundai Motor Group | USA | Las Vegas | Feb 2021 [10] |
Pony.ai | Toyota | USA | TBA | n/a |
Waymo | Chrysler and Jaguar Cars | USA | Phoenix, Arizona | November 2017 [11] |
WeRide | Renault–Nissan–Mitsubishi Alliance [12] | China | TBA | n/a |
Woven Planet Holdings | Toyota | Japan | TBA | n/a |
Avride | Hyundai [13] | Russia | Innopolis, Tatarstan | August 2018 [14] [15] |
Zoox | n/a | USA | TBA | n/a |
Name | ODD | Vehicle partners | Country | Launch location | Date of first driverless operation |
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ASI | Restricted (mining) | Liebherr [16] | USA | TBA | n/a |
Aurora | n/a | Paccar [17] and Volvo [18] | USA | TBA | n/a |
Einride | n/a | n/a | Sweden | TBA | n/a |
Gatik.ai | n/a | Isuzu [19] | Canada | Arkansas | [20] August, 2021 |
kodiak.ai | n/a | n/a | USA | TBA | n/a |
Plus.ai | n/a | Iveco [21] | USA | TBA | n/a |
torc.ai | n/a | Caterpillar [22] and Mercedes-Benz Group [23] | USA | TBA | n/a |
TuSimple | n/a | Traton [24] | USA | Arizona | [25] December, 2019 |
Waymo | n/a | Mercedes-Benz Group [26] | USA | TBA | n/a |
A self-driving car, also known as a autonomous car (AC), driverless car, robotaxi, robotic car or robo-car, is a car that is capable of operating with reduced or no human input. Self-driving cars are responsible for all driving activities, such as perceiving the environment, monitoring important systems, and controlling the vehicle, which includes navigating from origin to destination.
Vehicular automation is the use of technology to assist or replace the operator of a vehicle such as a car, truck, aircraft, rocket, military vehicle, or boat. Assisted vehicles are semi-autonomous, whereas vehicles that can travel without a human operator are autonomous. The degree of autonomy may be subject to various constraints such as conditions. Autonomy is enabled by advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) of varying capacity.
Velodyne Lidar is a Silicon Valley–based lidar technology company, headquartered in San Jose, California. It was spun off from Velodyne Acoustics in 2016. As of July 2020, the company has had about 300 customers. Velodyne Lidar ships sensors to mobility industry customers for testing and commercial use in autonomous vehicles, advanced driver assistance systems, mapping, robotics, infrastructure and smart city applications. In February 2023, the company merged with Ouster.
Waymo LLC, formerly known as the Google Self-Driving Car Project, is an American autonomous driving technology company headquartered in Mountain View, California. It is a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc.
Experiments have been conducted on self-driving cars since 1939; promising trials took place in the 1950s and work has proceeded since then. The first self-sufficient and truly autonomous cars appeared in the 1980s, with Carnegie Mellon University's Navlab and ALV projects in 1984 and Mercedes-Benz and Bundeswehr University Munich's Eureka Prometheus Project in 1987. In 1988, William L Kelley patented the first modern collision Predicting and Avoidance devices for Moving Vehicles. Then, numerous major companies and research organizations have developed working autonomous vehicles including Mercedes-Benz, General Motors, Continental Automotive Systems, Autoliv Inc., Bosch, Nissan, Toyota, Audi, Volvo, Vislab from University of Parma, Oxford University and Google. In July 2013, Vislab demonstrated BRAiVE, a vehicle that moved autonomously on a mixed traffic route open to public traffic.
A robotaxi, also known as robot taxi, robo-taxi, self-driving taxi or driverless taxi, is an autonomous car operated for a ridesharing company.
Yandex Taxi, a division of Yandex, operates a ridesharing company in Russia, Moldova, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Serbia, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. The Yandex Taxi division also operates Yandex Eda, a food delivery service; Yandex.Lavka, a grocery delivery service; and Yandex.Chef, previously known as Partiya Edy, a meal kit service. All services are accessible via the Yandex Go mobile app.
Ottomotto LLC, d/b/a Otto, was an American self-driving technology company founded in January 2016 by Lior Ron and Anthony Levandowski.
Argo AI LLC was an autonomous driving technology company headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The company was co-founded in 2016 by Bryan Salesky and Peter Rander, veterans of the Google and Uber automated driving programs. Argo AI was an independent company that built software, hardware, maps, and cloud-support infrastructure to power self-driving vehicles. Argo was mostly backed by Ford Motor Co. (2017) and the Volkswagen Group (2020). At its peak, the company was valued at $7 billion.
Torc Robotics (Torc), an independent subsidiary of Daimler Truck, is an American autonomous truck company headquartered in Blacksburg, Virginia, with operations in Albuquerque, New Mexico; Austin, Texas; and Stuttgart, Germany. Torc is testing autonomous trucks in Virginia, New Mexico, and Texas and is taking a pure play approach to commercialization – focusing at first on one platform in one region.
Chris Urmson is a Canadian engineer, academic, and entrepreneur known for his work on self-driving car technology. He cofounded Aurora Innovation, a company developing self-driving technology, in 2017 and serves as its CEO. Urmson was instrumental in pioneering and advancing the development of self-driving vehicles since the early 2000s.
Cruise LLC is an American self-driving car company headquartered in San Francisco, California. Founded in 2013 by Kyle Vogt and Dan Kan, Cruise tests and develops autonomous car technology. The company is a largely autonomous subsidiary of General Motors. Following a series of incidents, it suspended operations in October 2023, and Kyle Vogt resigned as CEO in November 2023. The company began returning its vehicles to public roads in May 2024.
A self-driving truck, also known as an autonomous truck or robo-truck, is an application of self-driving technology aiming to create trucks that can operate without human input. Alongside light, medium, and heavy-duty trucks, many companies are developing self-driving technology in semi trucks to automate highway driving in the delivery process.
Nuro, Inc. is an American robotics company based in Mountain View, California. Founded by Jiajun Zhu and Dave Ferguson, Nuro develops autonomous delivery vehicles and is the first company to receive an autonomous exemption from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Avride Inc. is a developer of self-driving cars and delivery robots. It is organized in Delaware and headquartered in Austin, Texas, with offices in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Tel Aviv, and Seoul. It is a subsidiary of Nebius Group and was formerly an affiliate of Yandex called Yandex SDG.
Pony.ai is a global autonomous vehicle technology company co-located in Silicon Valley, Beijing, and Guangzhou.
Aurora Innovation, Inc., doing business as Aurora, is a self-driving vehicle technology company based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Aurora has developed the Aurora Driver, a computer system that can be integrated into cars for autonomous driving. Aurora was co-founded by Chris Urmson, the former chief technology officer of Google/Alphabet Inc.'s self-driving team, which became known as Waymo, as well as by Sterling Anderson, former head of Tesla Autopilot, and Drew Bagnell, former head of Uber's autonomy and perception team.
DeepRoute.ai is a Chinese robotaxi startup based in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China.
Regulation of self-driving cars, autonomous vehicles and automated driving system is an increasingly relevant topic in the automotive industry strongly related to the success of the actual technology. Multiple countries have passed local legislation and agreed on standards for the introduction of autonomous cars.
Gatik is an autonomous trucking and delivery company that operates in the United States and Canada. The company creates Level 4 autonomous trucking technology for vehicles making middle mile commercial deliveries.