• Insider asked standalone companies to name the most influential stars in the industry.
• Startups could nominate anyone except their CEOs, and Insider received nearly 100 nominations.
• Here are 31 autonomous power players and how they are changing the industry.

Electric vehicles are all over the auto industry headlines these days, but that doesn’t mean self-driving vehicle development has been abandoned. The hype may have died down from a few years ago, but dozens of companies are battling to tackle some of the industry’s toughest tech challenges and create the future of driving technology. autonomous, from trucking to personal transport, rail, air and even agriculture.

At the helm of these companies are Power Players: brilliant engineering, operations, and technology minds leading their teams toward innovation and success. To identify these essential executives, managers, and leaders — who aren’t CEOs — we surveyed self-driving vehicle companies and cast a wide net on social media.

Insider reviewed nominations from across the audiovisual industry from a shortlist of nearly 100 people. Insider weighed each nominee’s background, importance to their business, and contributions to the entire autonomous vehicle industry, and selected those who seem to be moving their business and the industry forward as it takes off. in the next wave of autonomous vehicles. development.

These are 31 of the major players in the autonomous vehicle industry.

You can also check out our AV industry powerhouses from 2021. You can find our lists of AV rising stars from 2022, 2021 and 2019 on these links.

(Nominations for EV industry rising stars and EV industry players will arrive later this year.)