Chinese Technology company Tencent Holdings Ltd is reportedly entering into the self-driving car industry.
According to Reuters,Tencent is recruiting self-driving car engineers in Palo Alto, California, and essentially joining companies that compete for talents in the heart of the Silicon Valley,which has become a hub for testing and research of autonomous vehicles.
Five dozen companies enjoy permit to test these cars on the roads of California, but as of last month, and state records did not show Tencent as having an autonomous vehicle testing permit.
Based on a job posting on Linkedin,however, Tencent is throwing its hat into the self-driving vehicle industry as it hunts for talents to work on the technology.
The company has at least nine postings for engineering positions in areas that include sensor fusion, or vehicle intelligence,motion planning, and machine learning.“We are building a research team for our Auto-drive Team based in Palo Alto, or CA,” the company said in a job advertisement, which was posted a month ago.
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Source: inquisitr.com