Samsung Is Latest Tech Giant To Join Self-Driving Vehicle Revolution

It’s becoming harder and harder to name a major technology company that isn’t testing self-driving vehicles.

Samsung has been granted permission to begin testing a driverless vehicle in South Korea, according to a government statement released Monday, via CNN.

The tech giant, which is the first electronics company to receive government approval to test autonomous cars in South Korea, will test a vehicle fitted with sensors and cameras.

In thrusting itself into the autonomous-technology game, Samsung joins companies such as Apple, which recently received a permit to test self-driving cars in California, and Alphabet-owned Waymo, which now allows customers to hail driverless cars in Phoenix. Uber also has been at the forefront of developing autonomous-vehicle tech, although not always for the right reasons.

Like those companies, Samsung will focus strictly on developing technology to be used in self-driving cars, as it says it “has no plan to enter the car manufacturing business,” according to CNN.

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