List of self-driving system suppliers

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This is a list of self-driving car system (SDS) suppliers and self-driving truck system (SDS) suppliers.

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Definitions

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.

Light vehicles

NameVehicle partnersCountryLaunch cityDate of first public road driverless operation
Argo AI Ford and Volkswagen Group USATBAn/a
Aurora Toyota USATBAn/a
Auto X SAIC Motor ChinaShenzhenJanuary 2021 [1]
Baidu FAW Group [2] ChinaBeijingMay 2021 [3]
Cruise General Motors and Honda [4] USASan FranciscoDecember 2020 [5]
EasyMile n/aFranceBad BirnbachOctober 2019 [6]
May Mobility Toyota USADetroitJune 2018 [7]
Mobileye Volkswagen Group [8] USA / GermanyAustin, Texas / MunichTBA
Motional Hyundai Motor Group USALas VegasFeb 2021 [9]
Pony.ai Toyota USATBAn/a
Waymo Chrysler and Jaguar Cars USAPhoenix, ArizonaNovember 2017 [10]
WeRide Renault–Nissan–Mitsubishi Alliance [11] ChinaTBAn/a
Woven Planet Holdings Toyota JapanTBAn/a
Yandex Hyundai [12] RussiaInnopolis, TatarstanAugust 2018 [13] [14]
Zoox n/aUSATBAn/a

Heavy vehicles

NameODDVehicle partnersCountryLaunch locationDate of first driverless operation
ASIRestricted (Mining) Liebherr [15] USATBAn/a
Auroran/a Paccar [16] and Volvo [17] USATBAn/a
Einride n/an/aSwedenTBAn/a
Gatik.ain/a Isuzu [18] CanadaArkansas [19] August, 2021
kodiak.ain/an/aUSATBAn/a
Plus.ain/a Iveco [20] USATBAn/a
torc.ain/a Caterpillar [21] and Mercedes-Benz Group [22] USATBAn/a
TuSimplen/a Traton [23] USAArizona [24] December, 2019
Waymo n/a Mercedes-Benz Group [25] USATBAn/a

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Self-driving car</span> Vehicle operated with reduced human input

A self-driving car, also known as an autonomous car (AC), driverless car, or robotic car (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 including perceiving the environment, monitoring important systems, and controlling the vehicle, including navigating from origin to destination.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Vehicular automation</span> Automation for various purposes of vehicles

Vehicular automation involves the use of mechatronics, artificial intelligence, and multi-agent systems to assist the operator of a vehicle such as a car, lorries, aircraft, or watercraft. A vehicle using automation for tasks such as navigation to ease but not replace human control, qualify as semi-autonomous, whereas a fully self-operated vehicle is termed autonomous.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Velodyne Lidar</span> American technology company

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.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Waymo</span> Autonomous car technology company

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, the parent company of Google.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">History of self-driving cars</span> Overview of the history of self-driving cars

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. Since 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 robo-taxi, self-driving taxi or driverless taxi, is an autonomous car operated for a ridesharing company.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Yandex Taxi</span> Russian taxi service

Yandex Taxi is an international company operating taxi hailing and food delivery services across Russia, the CIS, Eastern Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. It is owned by Russian tech company Yandex. The company is among the world's leading developers of self-driving technology.

Ottomotto LLC, d/b/a Otto, was an American self-driving technology company founded in January 2016 by Lior Ron and Anthony Levandowski.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Anthony Levandowski</span> French-American automobile engineer (born 1980)

Anthony Levandowski is a French-American self-driving car engineer. In 2009, Levandowski co-founded Google's self-driving car program, now known as Waymo, and was a technical lead until 2016. In 2016, he co-founded and sold Otto, an autonomous trucking company, to Uber Technologies. In 2018, he co-founded the autonomous trucking company Pronto; the first self-driving technology company to complete a cross-country drive in an autonomous vehicle in October 2018. At the 2019 AV Summit hosted by The Information, Levandowski remarked that a fundamental breakthrough in artificial intelligence is needed to move autonomous vehicle technology forward.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Argo AI</span> Autonomous driving technology company

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).

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.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Chris Urmson</span> CEO of self-driving technology company Aurora

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.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Self-driving truck</span> Type of autonomous vehicle

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.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Yandex self-driving car</span> Robotaxi project

Yandex self-driving car is an autonomous car project of the Russian-based technology company Yandex. The first driverless prototype launched in May 2017. As of 2018, functional service was launched in Russia with prototypes also being tested in Israel and the United States. In 2019, Yandex revealed autonomous delivery robots based on the same technology stack as the company's self-driving cars. Since 2020, autonomous robots have been delivering food, groceries and parcels in Russia and the United States. In 2020, the self-driving project was spun-off into a standalone company under the name of Yandex Self-Driving Group.

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.

The impact of self-driving cars is anticipated to be wide-ranging in many areas of daily life. Self-driving cars have been the subject of significant research on their environmental, practical, and lifestyle consequences and their impacts remain debated.

DeepRoute.ai is a self-driving technology company headquartered in Shenzhen and Fremont, California and is focused on advancing urban logistics and popularizing robotaxis.

References

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  2. ↑ "Baidu and FAW Group pilot self-driving taxis in Hunan, China" . Retrieved 30 April 2021.
  3. ↑ "Baidu Apollo to launch fully driverless ride-hailing services in Beijing" . Retrieved 30 April 2021.
  4. ↑ "Honda, Cruise and GM take next steps toward autonomous vehicle mobility service business in Japan" . Retrieved 30 April 2021.
  5. ↑ Said, Carolyn (9 December 2020). "Cruise deploys true robot cars in S.F. — no backup drivers behind wheel". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 11 December 2020.
  6. ↑ "First in Germany: Autonomous Shuttles Connect Rural Town to Train Station" . Retrieved 30 April 2021.
  7. ↑ "May Mobility Is Deploying Self-Driving Vehicles Now, Starting In Detroit" . Retrieved 30 April 2021.
  8. ↑ "VW will test its autonomous ID Buzz in the US starting this month" . Retrieved 7 March 2024.
  9. ↑ "Motional Operates Driverless Vehicles on Public Roads" . Retrieved 3 Sep 2021.
  10. ↑ Randazzo, Ryan (30 January 2018). "Waymo to start driverless ride sharing in Phoenix area this year". Arizona Republic . Retrieved 13 June 2018.
  11. ↑ "Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi becomes lead investor in China autonomous driving company WeRide.ai" . Retrieved 30 April 2021.
  12. ↑ "Yandex Debuts Automated Driving Prototypes Based On Hyundai Sonata" . Retrieved 30 April 2021.
  13. ↑ "Беспилотник до работы и обратно" . Retrieved 28 August 2018.
  14. ↑ "Yandex rolls out Europe's first self-driving cabs in Russia" . Retrieved 30 August 2018.
  15. ↑ "Autonomous Solutions, Inc and Liebherr mining equipment announce collaboration towards production of autonomous ready haul trucks" . Retrieved 30 April 2021.
  16. ↑ "Aurora is teaming up with PACCAR to build and deploy self-driving trucks" . Retrieved 30 April 2021.
  17. ↑ "Volvo partners with Aurora to accelerate the deployment of autonomous transport solutions" . Retrieved 30 April 2021.
  18. ↑ "Gatik, Isuzu to partner on autonomous truck platform solutions" . Retrieved 30 April 2021.
  19. ↑ "Structured Autonomy: Gatik's Unique Approach to Commercializing the Middle Mile".
  20. ↑ "Plus Partners With IVECO To Develop Automated Trucks For Global Deployment" . Retrieved 30 April 2021.
  21. ↑ "Caterpillar details expanded autonomous mining truck capabilities developed with Torc Robotics" . Retrieved 30 April 2021.
  22. ↑ "Daimler Trucks to acquire Torc Robotics" . Retrieved 30 April 2021.
  23. ↑ "The TRATON GROUP and TuSimple Agreed on Global Partnership for Autonomous Trucks" . Retrieved 30 April 2021.
  24. ↑ "TuSimple Claims Autonomous Trucking's First 'Driver Out' Highway Run".
  25. ↑ "Strategic partnership. Daimler Trucks and Waymo" . Retrieved 30 April 2021.
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