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FutureTech Series: Autonomous Vehicles

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  • 55 Pages
  • January 2026
  • Region: Global
  • GlobalData
  • ID: 6217716
Innovations in autonomous driving are accelerating the transition from experimental systems to scalable, real-world deployment. The analyst’s latest FutureTech Series: Autonomous Vehicles report delivers a comprehensive analysis of five high and medium-impact technologies reshaping the autonomous vehicle landscape. The report highlights autonomous vehicle path planning, autonomous vehicle simulation testing, multi-sensor collision avoidance, visual-inertial odometry, and brake-by-wire systems, each addressing critical challenges across safety, localization, validation, and vehicle control. Using the analyst’s proprietary Tech Foresights methodology, the report examines innovation drivers, challenges, patent landscapes, and real-world adoption signals, providing essential strategic insights for industry leaders navigating the next phase of autonomous mobility.

Report Scope

  • Innovation radar chart identifies key disruptive forces within the autonomous vehicles theme
  • High and medium-impact innovations are ranked in the autonomous vehicles theme by their projected impact and include their supplementary patent details
  • Innovations deep-dive gives an overview and highlights patent indicators, key enterprise and startup/university innovators, and market buzz of select innovations
  • Methodology details on how the innovations and companies are listed into select categories

Reasons to Buy

  • The analyst’s FutureTech Series Reports are aimed at capturing futuristic technologies which have the potential to disrupt tomorrow.
  • These technologies are constantly changing, adapting, and progressing to enable a paradigm shift in our daily lives.
  • The awareness, knowledge, and expertise of these topics help transform business models and strategic thinking with an in-depth understanding of megatrends that can directly influence patenting, collaboration, acquisition, and investment decisions.

Table of Contents

1. Executive summary

2. Latest innovations in the autonomous vehicles theme: Radar chart identifying key disruptive forces within the ecommerce theme and high and medium-impact innovations with supplementary patent and innovator details

3. Deep dive into five prominent innovations: Definition, application areas, drivers and challenges, patenting activity, leading enterprise and startup/university innovators, and current landscape

4. Tech Foresights Methodology

5. Glossary

6. Further Reading

7. Report Authors

8. Contact the Publisher

Companies Mentioned (Partial List)

A selection of companies mentioned in this report includes, but is not limited to:

  • Aisin
  • Alcon
  • Alibaba
  • Anello Photonics
  • Apple
  • Applied Intuition
  • Autobrains
  • AutonomyNow
  • BEAMAGINE
  • BMW
  • Boeing
  • Bosch
  • Brembo
  • BYD
  • Canon
  • CarIQ
  • Denso
  • EROAD
  • FAW Group
  • Foretellix
  • Gatik
  • helm.ai
  • HERE Technologies
  • Hexagon
  • Hitachi
  • Honda
  • Horiba
  • HYC
  • Hyundai Mobis
  • Intel
  • Inverted AI
  • Kyocera
  • Lucid Motors
  • Mercedes-Benz Group
  • Mitsubishi Electric
  • Motional
  • Murata
  • Navier
  • nexteer
  • Nissan
  • Nokia
  • NVIDIA
  • Omnitron
  • Qualcomm
  • Renault
  • Siemens
  • Snowflake
  • Sony
  • Teradar
  • Tesla
  • Toyota
  • TÜV SÜD
  • Wayve
  • Zeropoint motion
  • ZF