Public Transportation

The latest project for the self-driving vehicle software company is for eVersum e-shuttles in Northern Ireland due to enter passenger service in 2025, adding to a deal with Beep tested at Florida’s SunTrax facility for public availability this year.

The autonomous vehicle technology company’s fourth annual Consumer Mobility Report looks at the road to adoption and the hurdles standing in the way of driverless solutions.

The three companies have entered into an MoU aimed at establishing a JV for providing driverless rides using Cruise Origin vehicles made at Factory ZERO in Michigan, with a vehicle on display for the first time in Japan in Honda’s Japan Mobility Show booth.

It is applying its in-house vehicle, software, and autonomous driving hardware to a collaboration with UPS on an autonomous electric cargo vehicle pilot program in the UK and with the European Institute for Innovation and Technology to test driverless public transport in Europe and Milton Keynes.

Forecasters still see long-term adoption in certain segments, with mobility-as-a-service and robotaxis expected to lead the transition to an autonomous vehicle future, while broad deployments of Level 2+ and Level 3 automated driving systems will reach at least 31% of new vehicle sales globally by 2035.

According to James Jeffs, Senior Technology Analyst at IDTechEx, the rate of autonomous technology improvement demonstrates the potential for them to far exceed human levels of safety in the future.

The startup plans to integrate its vehicles into the existing rail network alongside conventional freight trains, setting the path for customer testing on U.S. railways and its long-term goal of decarbonizing freight on rail.

At the IAA Mobility 2023 show next week, Schaeffler will exhibit the first electric demonstrator and its electrification and steering technology and the plans for Mobileye to provide its SAE Level 4 autonomous driving system.

This week’s best practice for developing ADS safety performance thresholds based on human driving behavior follows last month’s publication for continuous monitoring and improvement after deployment, as its Automated Vehicle Safety Consortium accelerates support for AV advancement.

The new pilot program will run for six months in downtown Orlando’s Creative Village.