Mobileye built the brains for everyone else, now it wants its own robotaxis.
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Mobileye built the brains for everyone else, now it wants its own robotaxis. A fleet of approximately 100 robotaxis are coming to an undisclosed American city next year 4 hours ago * Mobileye plans to launch a robotaxi service in America next year. * Fleet of around 100 vehicles will serve a major metropolitan market. * If everything goes smoothly, company could field 17,000 robotaxis. The robotaxi wars are heating up as Mobileye has announced plans to launch its own autonomous ride-hailing business. This is an interesting development as the company is making the jump from supplier to fleet operator. Mobileye says it will launch a robotaxi service in a "major metropolitan U.S. market" next year. The company aims to have an initial fleet of approximately 100 vehicles and an illustration suggests they'll be crossovers equipped with a roof-mounted sensor pod as well as sensors in the front and rear fenders. The company will apparently take a cautious approach to "validate the operational model under fully driverless conditions." If the initial rollout is a success, Mobileye plans to deploy approximately 17,000 robotaxis over the following five years. While there are more questions than answers at this point, the robotaxi will use Mobileye Drive as well as Moovit's Mobility Platform. They'll be joined by "consumer-facing applications, multi-modal trip planning, AV mission...
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