CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Regarding automated vehicle technology, perhaps the most well-known company is Tesla. Tesla has made a name for itself with their various self-driving automobiles, with cars like the Model S and Model Y being some of the most prominent Tesla vehicles.

Detailed explanation-2: -The first self-sufficient and truly autonomous cars appeared in the 1980s, with Carnegie Mellon University’s Navlab and ALV projects in 1984 and Mercedes-Benz and Bundeswehr University Munich’s Eureka Prometheus Project in 1987.

Detailed explanation-3: -Minus Zero is India’s first startup that is building fully autonomous vehicles. It recently became the first company in India to test a fully driverless prototype on unregulated Indian public roads, live! Backed by some of India’s top investors, the company aims to build the world’s most human-like self-driving cars.

Detailed explanation-4: -Waymo (Alphabet (GOOG) (GOOGL)) Waymo launched its commercial autonomous vehicles in 2018 and opened the first U.S. driverless taxi service to the public in 2020 in Phoenix. Then in March 2022, Waymo expanded to San Francisco starting initially with driverless rides for Waymo employees.