| Title | Drive.ai Launches Autonomous Taxi Route in Dallas | |
| Date | Wednesday May 09 2018, @01:33AM | |
| Author | martyb | |
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| from the more-like-a-very-small-bus-route dept. | ||
A startup has become the first new company to launch autonomous car(s) (archive) following Uber's deadly accident in March:
On Monday, an orange and blue car with the words "Self-Driving Vehicle" prominently displayed on both sides drove itself through the streets of this rapidly growing city north of Dallas, navigating across four lanes of traffic and around a traffic circle.
The car, operated by the Silicon Valley start-up Drive.ai, will eventually become part of a fleet of autonomous taxis that will ferry locals along a predetermined route between the Dallas Cowboys facility in Frisco and two other office, retail and apartment complexes.
While other companies have tested self-driving cars for years and some are in the early stages of offering a taxi service, Drive.ai's autonomous vehicle debut on Monday was still notable. It was the first new rollout of autonomous cars in the United States since a pedestrian died in Arizona in March after a self-driving car operated by Uber hit her.
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