Winners of ‘Dubai World Challenge for Self-Driving Transport 2019’
French companies swept the prizes of Leading Companies, amounting to $3 million dollars. Gaussin won the Sustainability and Energy award. Navya won the Durability and Reliability award as well as the Customers Experience award.
In the Start-Ups category. The first $1million-prize went to Sensible 4 from Finland. The runner-up was iAuto from Taiwan and got $500,000. UAE-based Derq Company finished third.
Amongst the International Universities, the winner was Freie Berlin, Germany, which received $200,000. Carlos III de Madrid University was second, and won $100,000 thousand dollars. In the third place came the Australian University UTS.
In the Local Universities, Dubai University came first and won $200,000; UAE University came second as the recipient of $100,000; and Al Ain University was third.
bron:https://gulfnews.com/uae/transport/dubai-not-far-from-being-first-city-to-have-driverless-transport-1.67150308