Volkswagen bids to dominate self-driving cars in fight for survival
Sebastien Ash and Kana Inagaki
Hamburg | London | Volkswagen has set its sights on becoming the “European champion” in self-driving vehicles as carmakers fight to survive a technology race that has been dominated by US rivals Waymo and Tesla.
The German carmaker plans to launch driverless taxis later this year in Los Angeles with Uber in what is set to become one of the most ambitious efforts by European legacy car makers to find a new source of revenue in autonomous driving.