Toyota
Toyota is going big for driverless and developing robotic products as well, particularly for older adults. Lots of reports - articles and blog posts are everywhere - that the car company is investing one billion dollars - yes, billion. A new center, the Toyota Research Institute, is being created in Silicon Valley, near Stanford, to do the actual work.
Ford
Ford is forgoing the head-in-sand/incremental approach of most conventional car companies. Like the driverless-or-bust approach of Google, for example, Ford is declaring that its completely self-driving vehicles will be on the roads in five years - so 2020.
I have to say that I'm enjoying that these large companies are coming around to my personal point of view. Maybe I can get a cut. Okay, not likely.
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