Ford, Volkswagen, Toyota collaborate on autonomous project

According to Carbuzz, these three auto companies have joined a program called DeepDrive.

This project funds an autonomous research at the University of California at Berkeley.

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It takes $300,000 to join the program, then each company gets access and permission to use any technology that gets developed.

Other members of this project include electronics part suppliers, Samsung, Panasonic, and Nvidia.

The last partner, Qualcomm, is there to develop artificial intelligence for autonomous cars.