Samsung Electronics has
joined the self-driving car race in California with a permit from the state to
test the technology on the home turf of Tesla, Google, and Apple.
A California Department
of Motor Vehicles website on Thursday showed that the South Korean consumer
technology giant's name had been added to a list of more than three dozen
companies with permits to test self-driving cars in the state.
Names on the list
included major car makers, Apple, Baidu, Tesla, and Waymo, which is owned by
Google-parent Alphabet.
Samsung Electronics
early this year got approval in South Korea to test the technology on roads in
that country, according to media there.
Samsung Electronics last
year announced a deal to buy the US auto parts maker Harman International
Industries for $8 billion in a bid to enter the growing market for automotive
technology to produce “connected” cars.
Samsung described the
deal as a chance to build a strong foundation in a self-driving car technology
expected to boom in the years ahead.
The Samsung group
dabbled in carmaking business in the 1990s but was soon forced to sell the
business to the French carmaker Renault in the wake of the crippling 1997-98
Asian financial crisis
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