The company’s self-driving cars are taking to the streets in Frisco, Texas.
On your marks: Back in May, Mountain View-based self-driving startup Drive.ai announced its plans for a public summer pilot, joining the likes of other autonomous car companies like Waymo. It’s been testing its vehicles on Frisco’s roads since January.
Get set: Now that the company has done extensive testing, it started welcoming passengers yesterday. For six months, a fleet of bright orange self-driving vans will transport residents around an extensively mapped area of town.
Go: The test will use safety drivers for now, but the startup hopes to pull the humans from the cars by the end of 2018. As Sameep Tandon, Drive.ai’s CEO, told The Verge: “We want to make sure people feel safe seeing a self-driving car with no human behind the wheel, and become comfortable with it so it becomes routine.”
SOURCE:MIT DONLOAD
On your marks: Back in May, Mountain View-based self-driving startup Drive.ai announced its plans for a public summer pilot, joining the likes of other autonomous car companies like Waymo. It’s been testing its vehicles on Frisco’s roads since January.
Get set: Now that the company has done extensive testing, it started welcoming passengers yesterday. For six months, a fleet of bright orange self-driving vans will transport residents around an extensively mapped area of town.
Go: The test will use safety drivers for now, but the startup hopes to pull the humans from the cars by the end of 2018. As Sameep Tandon, Drive.ai’s CEO, told The Verge: “We want to make sure people feel safe seeing a self-driving car with no human behind the wheel, and become comfortable with it so it becomes routine.”
SOURCE:MIT DONLOAD
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