Why Silicon Valley has its sights set on the UK as its European driverless car hub

Why Silicon Valley has its sights set on the UK as its European driverless car hub

few years from now, you hail a Waymo driverless taxi through your smartphone app. The car that pulls up may have been built in the US, but the interior is packed with specialist components – cameras, sensors and software – produced from a supply chain across the world. 

Some of it may have been developed by a small Oxford university spin-out the Silicon Valley giant snapped up last week.

Software, simulations and artificial intelligence are seen as increasingly vital to the future of safer autonomous vehicles. 

And it is this field – building sufficiently intelligent "brains" for driverless cars so they are smart enough to make decisions on their own – where Britain has been quietly proving...

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