While most autonomous vehicles work by extensively mapping out the areas they drive in, Wayve uses deep learning techniques to allow its cars to drive anywhere.

Bill Gates recently had the opportunity to take a ride in downtown London inside a Wayve autonomous vehicle (AV).

Instead of relying on a traditional autonomous driving stack, HD maps and hand-coded rules, Wayve said it is building a data-driven learned driver that can scale, adapt and generalise its driving intelligence to new places.

Wayve, a UK startup founded in 2017, raised a $20 million Series A round to launch a pilot fleet of self-driving Jaguar I-Pace electric SUVs in central London. Wayve believes the engineering challenges of self-driving cars will be solved by better artificial intelligence, not by more sensors and hand-coded rules. Wayve trains its autonomous driving…