How UAE plans to partner Tesla to push autonomous driving into top gear

  • Tesla CEO Elon Musk had said that the carmaker is poised to develop a technology making its vehicles fully capable of driving themselves.
  • In a bid to bolster its digital economy, UAE plans to hand out data that would be useful for driver-less cars to help incentivize start-ups.

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The United Arab Emirates threw open the door to Tesla Inc. to join its push to accelerate autonomous driving over the next five years as the Gulf nation seeks to bolster its digital economy, a UAE minister said.

The government plans to hand out data that would be useful to driver-less cars to help incentivize start-ups, Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence Omar Al Olama said in an interview with Bloomberg TV. Dubai Future Lab, an arm of state-owned Dubai Future Foundation, is also entering partnerships, he said.

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“Usually it costs a lot of money for them to collect all this data, but as a government we can collect it and then give it to them as an incentive to start up," Al Olama said.

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Tesla Inc.’s Elon Musk said last week that the carmaker is poised to develop a technology making its vehicles fully capable of driving themselves. Tesla and its competitors are “welcome to come and start in Dubai," Al Olama said.

The UAE’s economy has been battered by the coronavirus pandemic. But as the country was locked down for weeks, consumers and companies were forced to shift their activities online, boosting the nation’s digital economy.

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“The traditional economy has been hammered but the digital economy has been thriving," Al Olama said.

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First Published Date: 16 Jul 2020, 15:17 PM IST
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