According to Carbuzz, these three auto companies have joined a program called DeepDrive.
Ford, Volkswagen, Toyota collaborate on autonomous project
Ford, Volkswagen, and Toyota have formed a partnership in order to get autonomous (self driving) cars on roads.
Google self driving car
This project funds an autonomous research at the University of California at Berkeley.
It takes $300,000 to join the program, then each company gets access and permission to use any technology that gets developed.
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Other members of this project include electronics part suppliers, Samsung, Panasonic, and Nvidia.
The last partner, Qualcomm, is there to develop artificial intelligence for autonomous cars.
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