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March 4, 2020

Self-driving cars: The long road ahead

FiveAI has raised $41m to develop its self-driving car software — and realised quite how damn hard that will be.


Amy Lewin

6 min read

Nobody thought that getting self-driving cars on our streets would be easy. But over the past year, it’s become clearer just how bloody complicated the challenge is.

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Photo of One of FiveAI's vehicles driving in London
One of Five's vehicles driving in London
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Stan Boland, founder and chief executive of FIve. Photo: Adrian Sherratt
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Amy Lewin

Amy Lewin is Sifted’s editor and host of Startup Europe — The Sifted Podcast . Follow her on X, LinkedIn and Bluesky

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