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Waymo to Tesla: Silicon Valley is winning the race for first driverless car

The race for supremacy in autonomous vehicles is concentrated among a few corporate giants. Who is set to dominate it now?

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Michael Wade | The Conversation New York
Henry Ford didn’t invent the motor car. The late 1800s saw a flurry of innovation by hundreds of companies battling to deliver on the promise of fast, efficient and reasonably-priced mechanical transportation. Ford later came to dominate the industry thanks to the development of the moving assembly line.
Today the sector is poised for another breakthrough with the advent of cars that drive themselves. But unlike the original wave of automobile innovation, the race for supremacy in autonomous vehicles is concentrated among a few corporate giants. So who is set to dominate this time?
I’ve analysed six companies we

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