The autonomous driving landscape takes shape

Enrique Dans
Enrique Dans
Published in
2 min readFeb 19, 2022

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IMAGE: A line drawing of a car in frontal view with a LiDAR on top emitting waves
IMAGE: Lars Meiertoberens — NounProject (CC BY)

Volkswagen appears to be in talks with Huawei with a view to acquiring the Chinese company’s autonomous driving unit created in 2019 employing more than 5,000 people with a $1 billion R&D budget last year. Huawei’s plans for its autonomous driving unit did not at any time point to the manufacture of automobiles, but rather to a role as a technology supplier that the company itself compared to that of Germany’s

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Enrique Dans
Enrique Dans

Professor of Innovation at IE Business School and blogger (in English here and in Spanish at enriquedans.com)