[qaruxj]

I couldn't find anything about IBM working specifically on self-driving cars, but given their work on AI (people haven't forgotten about Watson already, have they?), it seems only natural that they would have a lot to bring to the table.

[tachyonbeam]

Self-driving cars involve vision, classification, most likely planning and logical reasoning, path finding, classical machine learning stuff.

Watson is natural language processing. Models of language, search, some amount of logical inference I presume. Not very similar to self-driving cars.