Amazon, Microsoft Look for Data Role in Self-Driving Cars With Here: Report
Amazon.com and Microsoft are in talks to supply cloud computing to digital mapping business Here.com, owned by a group of German carmakers developing self-driving cars, sources familiar with the matter said.
Amazon is also considering becoming a shareholder in Here, two sources said.
Last year, carmakers BMW, Audi and Mercedes struck a EUR 2.5 billion ($2.85 billion or roughly Rs. 18,928 crores) deal to buy Nokia's Here maps business.
Intelligent mapping systems supply information to control self-driving cars, which are equipped with street-scanning sensors to measure traffic and road conditions. This location data can in turn be shared with other map users.
"Amazon would take a stake as part of a broader deal to lock them in as a provider of cloud computing services," one sour...