the basis for automated driving (AD). There has been a lot of euphoria and much disillusionment regarding AD in the past, but after this CES, I really believe that Level 4 vehicles really will become a part of our daily life in many countries within the next five years – in commercial trucks and Uber/Lyft/Taxi-like on-demand passenger transportation service cars, who are expected to operate 24/7. The basic technology par excellence for this ap...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/03/21

ies got the most attention with Waymo leveraging its rapid weekly rider growth for attention. The Waymo booth showed its current Jaguar AV that is in commercial service in Phoenix, San Francisco and Los Angeles. At least two more cities will be in operation during 2025—Austin, TX and Atlanta, GA. Uber will be the AV operator in Atlanta. Waymo surpassed 150,000 driverless rides in November 2024 and has given over five million cumulative driverle...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/02/19

ed on November 18 that sources told their advisors that President-elect Trump's transition team is looking to relax federal regulations for self-driving cars as one of its priorities in nominating a Secretary of Transportation.   The transition team is reportedly considering Trump donor and former Uber executive Emil Michael as one of the candidates for Secretary of Transportation.   Tesla shares surged on November 18 on news that the Trump tea...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/12/26

· Hard to understand & correct errors Sensor strategy · Only camera for now · Most AVs use radar and lidar for safety No driver controls · How to move car as needed · Crash, first responders, others Robotaxi operational SW · Ride-hail SW in development · Could use ride-hail operators: Uber-Lyft Use of private Tesla AVs · New logistics-operational SW · Could use Uber-Lyft and Getaround-Turo Source: VSI Labs, October 2024   ...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/11/25

expand across the Bay area in coming years. Similar expansion will also take place in Los Angeles and nearby cities.   Two more cities are planned for 2025 deployment—Austin, Texas and Atlanta, Georgia. Currently Waymo is testing in Austin with its employees as customers. It is interesting that Uber will be the robotaxi operator in Austin and Atlanta with Waymo vehicles.   With five historical Waymo data points, VSI has made estimates of Way...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/10/30

on) in its April-June 2024 financial results. It is not clear where the Bolt EV for Cruise will be assembled, but according to GM CFO P. Jacobson, it will likely be at the Fairfax, Kansas plant that will produce the new Bolt EV using the Ultium platform (media reports).   Multi-year agreement with Uber for robo-taxi reservations Automated Bolt EV resumes test operation (manned) after interruption due to injury accident(Source: Cruise) ...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/10/08

their annual data reports. The AV drivered test miles have grown from 450,000+ in 2015 to over 5.8 million in 2023. Cumulative AV test miles have reached 23.6 million miles in California.   Total disengagements are shown in the third line of the table and need some explanation. In 2018, Apple and Uber had extremely high number of disengagements. The two companies accounted for about 97% of total disengagement with around 5% of AV miles. This cr...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/04/23

ced Tiago.ev. It comes with two options of battery packs and four different charging solutions. The 24-kWh battery pack version has a range of 315 km. A 19.2 kWh battery pack version has a range of 250 km.   Partnership with shared mobility companies for electric mobility Tata Motor MoU with Uber (Source: Tata Motors)   Tata Motors XPRES-T is one of the most preferable cars for shared mobility/ fleet companies. Tata Motors has signed m...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2023/12/28

re than 500,000 charging points.   PlugShare   The PlugShare app allows users to find charging stations, submit reviews and connect with other plug-in vehicle owners. Users can also list their private charging stations for public use with other EV and PHEV drivers, following the same principle as Uber or AirBNB, for example.   Users have access to a large network with over 700,000 stations globally and can add station locations by themselves w...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2023/12/05

commercial operation. Robotaxi will be its second commercial business. Aurora is primarily testing robotaxis via simulation but has tested in multiple cities as listed in the table. Aurora just raised over $800 million from investors to fund its business for another three years or so.   Toyota and Uber are development partners and investors. Toyota and Aurora have committed to a long-term partnership. Aurora also has a 10-year agreement to use U...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2023/08/29

ree control units (ADAS DRV2 Software/ADAS Vision Processor/ADAS Parking Control Unit) into one. This will be used in the successor model to the current Genesis G90.   Finally, Mobis is supplying several parts for the Level 4 Motional IONIQ5 robot taxi, which can already be ordered via the Lyft or Uber app for a ride in Las Vegas.   The Remote Vehicle Assistance Controller enables remote control of the vehicle in unexpected situations. In addit...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2023/05/31

oftware-related businesses.   Regarding the use of self-driving technology, Motional, a joint venture company between Hyundai and Aptiv, will use the Ioniq 5-based robotaxi featuring autonomous driving technology, and will start self-driving deliveries and ride-sharing services in cooperation with Uber and Lyft. Establishing AI Institute in the U.S., Global Software Center in Korea Setting up AI Institute in the US On August 12, 2022, the H...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2023/03/17

A has adopted the EV90 as a green logistics transport vehicle in Oslo, Norway, and other cities. South America The Uruguay Emergency Center has procured its first EV90 customized ambulance. Models such as the “MIFA 6” BEV SUV will be launched in Ecuador in November 2022. The MIFA 6 became Uber's strategic alliance partner model and began operating in the Chilean market. The SQM Group, a major lithium mining company, also chose the MIFA ...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2023/01/17

h as long-term energy storage, fuel production and application to FCEVs.   The second generation of the Mirai FCEV has already been launched. A taxi fleet with 600 Mirai FCEVs is expected to be operated in Paris from 2023. Also, in Berlin, customers will soon be able to order a Mirai FCEV taxi via Uber.   The second generation fuel cell modules, for example, can be used in electricity generators for events, such as to light up the Eiffel tower ...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2023/01/12

ui. Three battery swap stations have so far come into operation in the city and, at the end of the year, there will be a total of 20.   The concept is also taking off in the USA. The start-up Ample is currently operating five battery exchange stations in the San Francisco Bay Area specifically for Uber drivers [2]. Ample has also announced partnerships with the investors Shell and Eneos to launch pilot projects in the USA and Japan.   In pr...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2022/12/15

high on the mobility energy productivity metric as car usage. Stanley Young noted other mobility patterns and projects, highlighting how airports experience mobility shifts faster than other areas and showing the Innisfil Experiment, in which the Canadian city used a public-private partnership with Uber to improve transit rather than develop a public transit system.   Jason Stack described a freight signal prioritization pilot project employed o...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2022/11/25

mer members only. 4 pages remaining.Read more at no cost for a limited time by registering for a free trial. Data - Navigating Complex and Conflicting Forces Organization Speaker Title Honda Development & Manufacturing of America Rajeev Chhajer Group Leader, Connected Technologies Research Uber Technologies, Inc. Kevin Gay Head of Safety for Autonomous Mobility & Delivery Amazon Web Services, Inc. Dean Phillips Worldwide Technical Lead...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2022/05/24

cities, despite being small scale and regional. However, collectively there are many major companies who also are doing drivered and driverless testing in California, being more focused on R&D rather than commercial deployment.   Meanwhile, the mobility industry has seen continuous consolidation. Uber, Lyft and Voyage sold their AV units to Aurora, Toyota Woven Planet and Cruise, respectively. In low-speed autonomous shuttle markets, Optimus Ri...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2022/05/23

, mainly in Europe and North America.   In November 2020, the company signed a merger agreement with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), and the new company became a listed company on the NASDAQ market.   Promoting the development of EVs for vehicle dispatch services in partnership with Uber Arrival Car prototype (Source: Arrival)   In May 2021, Arrival announced that it would partner with Uber Technologies, Inc. (Uber) to d...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2022/02/21

le" Kitty Hawk "Multicopter with boom-mounted rotors" Beihang University "Multi-Rotor Passenger-Carrying Aircraft" Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics "Short-distance / vertical take-off and landing aircraft adopting variant undercarriage" Foshan Shenfeng "Multi-rotor manned vehicle" Uber Technologies "Safe Vertical Take-Off and Landing Aircraft Payload Assignment" Airbus Helicopters "Multirotor Aircraft with an Airframe and a Thru...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2022/01/18