BlackBerry Sees Detroit Auto Show as Next Stop on Road to Future

BlackBerry Sees Detroit Auto Show as Next Stop on Road to Future
People watch as an autonomous car drives down an Ottawa street as the City of Ottawa and Blackberry QNX demonstrate the vehicle on Oct. 12, 2017. The Canadian Press/Fred Chartrand
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TORONTO—BlackBerry Ltd., a company increasingly focused on technology for the self-driving vehicle market, is making an inaugural visit to North America’s biggest auto show in Detroit.

Over the past five years, chief executive John Chen gradually reduced the Waterloo, Ont.-based company’s dependence on smartphone sales in a crowded market and repositioned the company formerly known as Research in Motion as an innovator in cybersecurity and software.