NEW YORK: A company working to make open-source self-driving software reliable enough to be used in commercially available vehicles said it had hired a former German car boss as it seeks to expand its reach.
That software is used by scores of labs and companies in their self-driving car and robotics efforts, including Intel Corp, Microsoft Corp and Amazon.com Inc.The software is open source, meaning that anyone can adopt it and use it free of charge, but it has so far mainly been deployed in research settings.
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