BlackBerry To Enter Self-Driving Vehicle Market With Upcoming Technology

BlackBerry may have given up the smartphone-making battle, but it still wants its presence in the market to be felt by many consumers. In a new attempt at finding its place in the tech industry, the once-popular Canadian smartphone maker revealed that it is joining the self-driving vehicle market with its own driver assistance and autonomous vehicle technology. VentureBeat has learned that BlackBerry is opening its autonomous driving research center in Canada this Monday. A spokeswoman has confirmed that BlackBerry's subsidiary QNX's Ottawa facility is expanding to include research and development of a more advanced technology for self-driving cars. Due to financial constraints, however, the company intends to just come up with the software foundation for other platforms and not really invest in artificial intelligence and machine learning like what Silicon Valley firms are doing.