Name: Driverless vehicles are here, but growth is slow
Uploaded: 2022-06-13
Duration: 5 min 22 s
Description: If you're lucky enough to live in these cities, you can hail a driverless taxi today.

If you're lucky enough to live in these cities, you can hail a driverless taxi today.

Driverless vehicles are here, but growth is slow

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While you can hail a driverless taxi in a few cities, it will be some time before the vehicles are truly commonplace.

just a year ago, I don't think a lot of people were just expected to see vehicles with no drivers behind the steering wheel and it's happening now Cruz is building an old electric autonomous fleet. We have about 200 cars registered with the California D. M. V. And we use them across two fleets. Um one which is our fully driverless fleet, no driver behind the wheel, not even a safety driver, It operates our public service between 10 PM to six AM across 70% of san Francisco. And then the second fleet is our testing fleet which runs all hours of the day and the full seven by seven of san Francisco Momentum is the leading autonomous driving technology company, committed to create a better future for smart mobility through our race to Ai technology recently with the kind of projects for Texas with our partners, the ability to deploy 60 active in Shanghai, Shanghai is one of the largest city in china. There is huge potential to sell automated vehicles in the city and also the people to customers in shanghai. They are very living to accept new technology when no one is the program we have where anybody can just download the app, sign up, take a ride. We've done thousands of rides that way, tens of thousands of rides and we've been focusing a lot on kind of the phoenix metro area in san Francisco and now we've taken that exact same software, the exact same cars and we're trying to deploy it in downtown phoenix, it's going great and it's a really good sign for how things are going for us that we're able to take what was built in one city and use it in another city without a whole lot of additional work, 80% of the writers, they use our service twice or more after the initial track. So we see some thickness of that services. We also try to include some of the cool technologies into the rock taxes for example, they can already choose music, they want to play in the way of after they started the tax on top of that for our company. We also use that as a very good communication to tell people what the functionality was, the benefit of autonomous driving. So that in the future when we began to deploy our solutions to many of the mass produce the vehicles. They are the first group of people who is going to buy our products. You know, we can see that Waymo pace here is really accelerating, but that doesn't mean that there's gonna be a date where, you know, every city across the world has autonomous vehicles. It's not something where we just push it to the app store and other everywhere. We need to get cars everywhere. We need to, you know, develop the match for the city. So it will be a little more gradual than what people might expect other technology, but it's really picking up the pace, the origin is a game changer, it's a vehicle built from the ground up for autonomous driving. We do not assume that there's going to be a driver if you look at it, the sort of internal cabin is just really huge and very comfortable. Um, and that's what's very exciting about the origin and that by leveraging autonomous technology, we can actually maximize the experience that passenger can get from a vehicle. But I I believe, as I mentioned, this is a huge game changer. And the transportation industry, our vehicles are very good in driving comfortably because they are really good in estimating sort of physics and making sure that we break comfortably. We turn in a comfortable manner and at the same time they're also always looking out for risk for inclusion For Pedestrians. And so we are achieving amazing levels. There's lots of evidence that humans are not perfect driving right. There are some more around 40,000 deaths in the United States every year related to automobiles, drivers can be texting on their phone, they could just be distracted, our cars are not distracted, They are paying attention. They have a 360° view of what's going on and they are attentive because that's the only thing that programs to do is to watch out and drive safely Every year, there's more than 1.3 million people died in the accident and 90% of the accidents are likely to be caused by human error. Therefore we believe our Australian technologies can help us to increase the safety and ultimately save more lives. Like any new technology, there is a period where people need to become more familiar with it. However, I find it hard that anyone would not want to leverage sort of autonomous driving at some point in their life. So I'm actually extremely excited about what's going to come up and in the next few months and beyond. So I think the future ahead of us is gonna look very differently than what we're used to and it's happening now. So I'm super excited.