Investor Presentaiton
FUTURE AGENDA
Future of Autonomous Vehicles
Where we have come from
1939.
GM Futurama Concept -
World's Fair - New York
1945.
Cruise control invented
Google completes 500,000.
miles of autonomous driving
Caterpillar starts robotics trail
1953.
RCA Labs test wire-guided
miniature car
NuTonomy spun out of MIT
2014-
1963.
UK TRRL automatic vehicle guidance
research project launched
Port of Rotterdam launches
1967.
Remote controlled car tested
2013 •
at Ohio State University
1968.
Vienna Convention on Road Traffic
enforces driver control of car
automated guided vehicles
FlixMobility founded in
Germany
Amazon acquires Kiva
Systems for $775m
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1977 •
First Semi-Automated Vehicle Test
- Tsukuba, Japan
Lyft founded as Zimride
1980.
German Bundeswehr tests military
robot vehicle
Google
Baidu
Tesla
Lyft
Uber
Volvo
Amazon predicts drone
deliveries within 5 years
Tesla announces Autopilot
UK Government allows
AV testing
Oxbotica spun out of
Oxford University
Mercedes S Class includes
semi-automated features
Google fully automated
prototype tested
NIO founded in Shanghai
Uber recruits key talent from
CMU robotics centre
Tesla Autopilot capability.
introduced
Audi, BMW and Daimler acquire
HERE for $3bn from Nokia
Volvo launches Drive Me
project in Sweden
Volvo pledges that by 2020
no one will be killed in a Volvo
GM invests $500m in Lyft
autonomous vehicle partnership
GM acquires Cruise
Automation for $1bn
Apple invests $1bn in Chinese
ride share Didi Chuxing
Ford and VC firms invest
in NuTonomy
Qualcomm acquires NXP
for $39bn
Toyota and Uber announce
partnership
Lyft announces partnership
with NuTonomy
Peugeot-PSA announces
partnership with NuTonomy
Uber completes 2m miles in
automated testing
Bosch and Nvidia announce
Al partnership
Intel acquires Mobileye
for $15bn
Apple starts testing
autonomous vehicles
Ford invests $1bn in Argo Al
Audi and Nvidia announce
Al partnership
Daimler and Nvidia
announce Al partnership
2017
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Intel invests in HERE
2018-
Waymo spun off as separate
company from Google
Amazon drone testing in
Cambridge, UK
Tesla Autopilot completes
300m miles of operation
US Federal AV policy agreed
Pony.ai founded
Samsung acquires Harman
Industries for $8bn
Uber AV prototypes in San
Francisco and Pittsburgh
Drive.ai spun out of
Stanford University
Uber acquires Otto truck
start-up
Starsky Robotics truck
technology unveiled
Baidu announces Apollo AV
platform and fund
US Federal AV policy
2.0 agreed
Ford Lyft partnership
announced
Lyft partners with drive.ai
Waymo testing without a
safety driver.
NuTonomy acquired by
Aptiv for $400m
Tesla semi-truck announced
Beijing permits AV testing on
public roads
US Federal AV policy
3.0 agreed
Waymo semi truck
announced
Self-driving Uber car
kills pedestrian
Baidu completes 140,000 km
of self-driving in a year in Beijing
Volvo launches Vera
autonomous platform
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Lyft completes 5,000 self-
driving car rides in Las Vegas
2019
China permits city governments
to issue AV road licences
Baidu begins mass production
of Apollo self-driving bus
Uber shuts down AV
truck project
Waymo completes 5m miles
of testing
2020 and beyond
• Didi Chuxing spins out
self-driving car unit
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Ford acquires Journey
Holding and Quantum Signal Al
Baidu completes 1m miles
of test driving
Toyota partners with Baidu's
Apollo platform
Amazon announces launch
of drone delivery for Prime
Apple acquires Drive.ai
Volvo and Uber launch
self-driving production car
Lyft IPO
Uber IPO
Rio Tinto starts autonomous
truck mining with Caterpillar Inc
Tesla 'Autonomy Day'
announcements
Tesla driver killed in
Autopilot mode
Port of Rotterdam tests
autonomous navigation
California DMV grants permit
to Waymo for testing
Apollo shuttle bus trial at
Shanghai Expo
Waymo subsidiary
established in Shanghai
Google completes 300,000
automated driving miles
2015.
Apple launches project Titan
1987. EU Eureka Prometheus
Project launched
2012 •
Florida authorises AV testing
1991 •
US Congress passes the ISTEA
Transportation Authorization bill
Peloton truck AV company
founded
1994.
Eureka Prometheus project
robotic cars drive 1000km
2011-
Nevada authorises AV
testing
1995.
Carnegie Mellon first US coast-to-coast
autonomous drive 4500km
2010 ⚫
TUB self-driving vehicles
demo in Germany
1995.
Mercedes S Class drives from Munich
to Copenhagen using computer vison
Uber founded
2016
1996 •
Advanced Cruise-Assist Highway
Research Association Demo - Japan
2009-
Google Self-Driving Car
project launched
1997 •
USDOT Automated Highway System
Demo - San Diego, California
2008 •
Rio Tinto launch Mine of the
Future project
1998 Google founded
2007-
DARPA Urban Challenge -
California
1999.
Mobileye founded - Tel Aviv
2005.
DARPA Grand Challenge -
California
2000.
Adaptative cruise control
launched by Bosch
Baidu founded
2004 •
DARPA Grand Challenge -
California
2003
Tesla Founded
AV Development Timeline
The possibility of developing an autonomous vehicle has been explored for many years.
Since 1939, projects have been building momentum towards today's intensive activity.View entire presentation