According to Thomson Reuters's latest report on intellectual property and technology, from 20 10 to 20 15, there are more than 22,000 invention patents related to automobile driverless technology, and in this process, some enterprises have emerged and become industry leaders in this field.
Since the 1970s, the United States, Britain, Germany and other developed countries began to study driverless cars, and made breakthroughs in feasibility and practicality. China began to study driverless cars in the 1980s, and the National University of Defense Technology successfully developed the first truly driverless car in China at 1992.