World is going to enter in the field of self driving. Self driving cars are the need of the time. As many things have bad effects as well as good effects but self driving good effects are higher in numbers. According to National Safety Council more than 38 thousands people died due to car accidents in 2019. So self driving cars can help to reduce the number of deaths. Further according to some experts it will improve our environment. More than 40 plus companies are working on self driving cars and each one is trying to develop best cars. Here are the top 2020 self driving vehicles companies.

Waymo

It is an American autonomous driving technology development company. Waymo at start was a project of google but in December 2016 it became a stand alone company. It is one of the leading self driving company and it is far and away head of many companies. Waymo has driven more than 20 million miles on public roads which is many times greater than its rivals. More than 20 million miles is completed across 25 cities including Washington, San Francisco, Novi, Michigan and Kirkland. Waymo is using LiDAR, sensors, radar and microphones for self driving cars. Company also developed its own hardware in 2011 when there was nothing functionality of level 4 cars.

It has not grown locally beyond Phoenix. Waymo is working in Phoenix as a self driving taxi car. It is available 24 hours and 7 days of week in Phoenix. Waymo launched a Waymo One app for self driving taxi booking services. In Waymo One app customer specify the pickup and drop-off location then it will give a estimate of time and cost. They are using five stars for customer feedback. Some of the passenger’s complaints are shaky driving, weird drop-offs and circuitous routes. This feedback will help them to overcome mistakes. Currently Waymo is one of the top autonomous vehicles company of the world.

GM Cruise

GM Cruise is an American self driving company. It was formerly known as NGMCO Inc and company change its name to GM Cruise. GM Cruise is an aggressive competitor of Waymo in the field of autonomous vehicles. GM Cruise is now in second position in most number of self driving cars. After 2017 this company own more than 180 autonomous cars. So far this company has driven more than 1 million miles. Many of GM Cruise cars look like standard Chevrolet Bolt hatchbacks. In reality more than 40 percent of the parts of Chevrolet Bolt hatchbacks modified to self driving cars. At the start of 2020 GM Cruise introduced a self driving car which looked like a shuttle.

The name of six-seat and no steering electric vehicle is “Origin” which is basically a box with 4 wheels. Orgin can not be purchased because it is a ride sharing vehicle. The Company’s plan is to launch ride services in San Francisco. GM Cruise does not share the information of how many vehicles and when this ride services will start. In 2019 GM Cruise was planning to launch the self driving ride sharing services even without a human backup driver. Because GM Cruise changed their plan after the incident of Uber autonomous vehicle ran down and killed a pedestrian. So it can be difficult for Origin to operate their steering less vehicle on national highways. So far it is the second best autonomous vehicles company to watch.

Tesla

Tesla is an American electric vehicle company founded in 2003. It is controlled by Elon Musk who is the CEO and the co-founder of the Tesla. Currently Tesla cars are more capable of autonomy than other manufacture car company. Tesla is using light detection and LiDAR navigation technology for their cars. Further they are enabling car autonomous operations with the help of radar, ultrasonic and 2D camera. Tesla has a vehicle of nearly 1 million and more than 0.3 million cars sold last year. According to Tesla by the end of 2020 they will have a fully self driving car of level 5.

Tesla is the only company to claiming the fully self driving car at the end of this year. Level 5 car has a features of auto lane change, auto park and most important it will identify signs and lights. Two previous autopilot of Tesla are Standard and enhanced autopilot. Standard autopilot will only give you a option of emergency braking. The Second one facilitates auto park, auto steering, distance cruise-control, summon, and autopilot navigation. There are many chances that Tesla will surprised the world with the launch of its full self driving car. If Tesla possible to do that then it will be the only company to have a self driving car.

Argo AI

Argo AI is one of the leading technology platform companies. It is currently working with many automakers. Argo AI financial structure is different from other companies. Ford and Volkswagen own 40 percent and Argo management owns 20 percent of the ownership. Two famous automakers Volkswagen and Ford joined 7 billion dollars alliance deals. Alliance of American and Europe companies will help Argo AI to grow globally. This Alliance will help them to raise staff up to 40 percent. Although the value of Argo AI have raised up to 7 billion dollars after agreement between them. But both companies will hold equal stakes in Argo AI.

Argo’s board comprised of two Ford, two Volkswagen and three Argo seats. One big question that is rising for Argo is their cars will be electronic or not. A famous company GM Cruise is planning to have all electric self driving cars in future. While Waymo is building a fleet of both electric and gas self driving cars. On the other hand Argo AI CEO has concerns about all fleet of electric cars. According to Argo AI charging of electric battery will consume the time and fast charging will destroy the battery. The frequently replacing of battery is not good for environment. Argo AI plan is not to launch its own vehicle services. Rather Argo helps Ford and Volkswagen to launch their services.

Baidu

Baidu is a Chinese multinational technology company. It has more than 300 self driving vehicles which have driven more than 1.8 million miles. Baidu is the second largest search engine of the world. They started like google but after came in industry. Baidu is now working with more than 60 car-makers. According to reports the worth of self driving vehicles worth will be 500 billion $ in 2030. Due to this many of companies of china has started to begin partnership with china. Baidu improved the quality of their self driving cars by different tests. There is no accident reported while the testing of self driving cars which show the capability of the Baidu.







Now Baidu has opened their drive-less taxi free services in Changsha capital of Hunan province. This service will cover an area of 130 squares kilometers. Many Industrial areas, Commercial zones and residential areas are covered by this service. This service is access through Baidu app by the people of Changsha. Every car have a backup driver which is there to handle critical situations. This technology will help autonomous vehicles to understand its surrounding and this will increase the capabilities of vehicles. According to Baidu they will have a level 5 car in 2025. The growth of baidu stands it with the top self driving vehicles of the world.

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