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China's Tencent Builds Self Driving Car Team in Silicon Valley

China's Tencent Builds Self-Driving Car Team in Silicon Valley

By Reuters | Updated: 8 November 2018 12:41 IST

Highlights

Tencent Holdings is recruiting self-driving car engineers in Palo Alto
Silicon Valley is a hub for testing and research of autonomous vehicles
Records as of last month did not show Tencent had testing permit

Chinese technology company Tencent Holdings is recruiting self-driving car engineers in Palo Alto, California, joining a crowded field of corporations vying for talent in the heart of Silicon Valley.

Silicon Valley is a hub for testing and research of autonomous vehicles, with five dozen companies permitted to test such cars on California roads. But state records as of last month did not show Tencent had an autonomous vehicle testing permit.

"We are building a research team for our Auto-drive Team based in Palo Alto, CA," the company said in job advertisements on LinkedIn. There are at least nine postings on LinkedIn for engineering positions in areas including motion planning, sensor fusion, vehicle intelligence and machine learning.

The job postings date back between two weeks and a month, according to LinkedIn.

Tencent declined to comment on its self-driving plans in Silicon Valley.

Tencent's Chinese rival Baidu was one of the first of the new generation of Chinese companies to set up a base in Silicon Valley in 2011. It has an autonomous vehicle testing permit in California.

According to Chinese state news agency Xinhua in May, Tencent got the green light by the southern city of Shenzhen to test self-driving cars on some public roads. Tencent is headquartered in Shenzhen.

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