Momenta, a leading Chinese supplier of assisted and autonomous driving solutions, said on April 24 that it has signed contracts to supply more than 130 car models with its assisted driving technologies, touting a growing list of clients including General Motors, SAIC-Volkswagen, and Toyota. The Chinese startup has been making its autonomous driving system without using expensive high-definition maps, which is a relatively time- and cost-efficient way of operating self-driving cars at scale. In addition, Momenta will start operating fully driverless vehicles for passenger transport by the end of this year in the eastern Chinese city of Shanghai, where SAIC, one of its major investors, is headquartered. This makes it a potential competitor to robotaxi firms Waymo, China-based Pony.ai, and WeRide. READ MORE: Chinese companies take on Tesla’s Full Self-Driving with non-lidar approach, end-to-end AI