Motional and Lyft have announced the second launch of their fully driverless ride-hail service as part of its multi-city partnership, featuring the Ioniq 5 AV.
The framework agreement is expected to create one of the largest deployments of autonomous vehicles on a major ride-hail network, with the potential to reach millions of Uber riders in the US.
The all-electric Ioniq 5-based robotaxi, an autonomous vehicle designed for fully driverless ride-hail operation on the Lyft network, will scale up to multiple US cities.
Uber is working with Motional to jointly develop an autonomous delivery service model that could quickly scale to more areas across Los Angeles and in other cities.
The driverless tech specialist developed nuReality to understand how expressive behaviours by AVs, such as flashing lights, can aid in human-machine communication with pedestrians.
Motional’s next-generation, fully driverless vehicles, based on the Hyundai platform, will be integrated, operationalised and deployed on the Lyft ride-share network.
Service of the publicly available autonomous fleet run by Motional and Lyft was paused earlier this year due to Covid-19 but has resumed with enhanced protective measures.
In the 18 months since launch, more than 10 new datasets have been made publicly available across the industry, helping to build “safer, more educated” autonomous vehicles.
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