When it comes to the race to develop autonomous vehicles, Google and its fellow tech companies have gotten a lot of publicity. But the tech giants may have a tough time beating out the traditional car makers and parts suppliers, if a new study is any indication.
To get a sense of which companies are leading the development of autonomous car technologies, The Cologne Institute for Economic Research identified and analyzed 5,839 related patents from the past seven years. As we can see in this chart from Statista, which is based on The Cologne Institute's data, traditional automakers and parts suppliers — led by a trio of German companies — are leaving Google and the rest of the tech industry in the dust.
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