SAN FRANCISCO: Samsung Electronics has joined the self-driving car race in California with a permit from the state to test the technology on the home turf of Tesla, Google, and Apple.

A California Department of Motor Vehicles website on Thursday showed that the South Korean consumer technology giant’s name had been added to a list of more than three dozen companies with permits to test self-driving cars in the state.

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