According to Reuters, the Canadian technology company Blackberry opened in December 19, autopilot R & D center, trying to create their own unmanned vehicle R & D competition, an indispensable one.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will head the opening ceremony of the BlackBerry's Autopilot R & D center, which is headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, to the "originator" of the smartphone, the prime minister's office said on Dec. 18.
Reported that the famous mobile phone manufacturing BlackBerry, the smart phone market to hand over to the same industry Apple and Samsung, the fought more lucrative software manufacturing business and mobile device management services. BlackBerry is now expanding its subsidiary, QNX Software Systems, Inc.'s Ottawa facility, to focus on developing advanced auxiliary drive systems and autopilot technology.
BlackBerry has been focused on industrial QNX software has been abandoned the BlackBerry operating system, and now focus on how to make embedded software and sensors, cameras and autopilot vehicles to interact with other components required.
However, in the financial strength of the Silicon Valley in order to obtain autonomy has been in the field of artificial intelligence and machine learning to invest a lot of financial resources, slightly financially tight BlackBerry did not do the opposite, the BlackBerry seize the market gap, played a reliable partner.
