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California’s 30 Self-Driving Car Permits Include Apple, VW, BMW and Ford

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California’s 30 Self-Driving Car Permits Include Apple, VW, BMW and Ford

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[cnxvideo id=”655243″ placement=”ros”]The list of companies that have received permits to test “autonomous vehicles” in California has grown to 30, as experts expect a large portion of the auto industry to employ the technology within a decade. The list includes Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), a fact that gained huge press attention. It also includes most of the world’s largest car companies, and a number of obscure operators not known outside the industry.

For the car company applicants, progress in the advancement of the technology is a double-edged sword. It gives them potential sales as the transportation sector takes a huge jump into a new generation of travel. However, the manufacturers face a set of competitors, many of which were not in business a few years ago, and some of which have made impressive strides. The car companies on the California Autonomous Vehicle Tester Program include Nissan, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA), Subaru, Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F), and the General Motors Co. (NYSE: GM) GM Cruise division.

Several auto company suppliers are also testing in California. These include Delphi Automotive and Bosch.

The Google division of Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOGL) leads the tech companies on the list. It has tested its own self-driving cars for millions of miles and is considered one of the industry’s leaders. This is only good news for traditional car companies if Google is willing to form partnerships with them to power their products. Which companies Google picks in such partnerships would realign the industry in future years.

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The entire list, according to the California Department of Motor Vehicles, includes:

  • Volkswagen Group of America
  • Mercedes-Benz
  • Google
  • Delphi Automotive
  • Tesla
  • Bosch
  • Nissan
  • GM Cruise
  • BMW
  • Honda
  • Ford
  • Zoox
  • Drive.ai
  • Faraday & Future
  • Baidu USA
  • Wheego Electric Cars
  • Valeo North America
  • NextEV USA
  • Telenav
  • NVIDIA
  • AutoX Technologies
  • Subaru
  • Udacity
  • Navya
  • Renovo Motors
  • UATC (Uber)
  • PlusAi
  • Nuro
  • CarOne
  • Apple

And, month by month, it gets more crowded.

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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