They do. As an annecdote, the professor who formerly held the "Machine Learning"...

		iamlucaswolf on Dec 29, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: VW Solves Quantum Chemistry Problems on a D-Wave M... They do. As an annecdote, the professor who formerly held the "Machine Learning" course at TU Munich left for VW's AI research group (https://argmax.ai) a few years ago. Whether that qualifies as "science" may be debatable, but the larger players in the automotive space are definitely invested in this kind of research.