VW, BMW and Daimler hold talks on cooperation in self-driving cars

BMW, Volkswagen and Daimler, the maker of Mercedes-Benz cars, are in talks on a formal collaboration to work on key technologies and industry standards for autonomous driving. There has already been substantial industry cooperation on mapping tools, primarily via Here, a Finnish mapping startup which German carmakers have jointly owned since 2015. All German companies are lagging behind the main player in self-driving technologies: Waymo, owned by Alphabet, the owner of Google.

Source: www.handelsblatt.com