![]() This commercial launch of driverless delivery is a landmark achievement not only for our company, but for the entire transportation industry. Driverless delivery is critical to making this vision of on-demand vehicles economically viable.Īfter testing for thousands of hours, we’ve proven that our remote-piloting technology is robust enough to take the safety driver out. We want to make it so easy to get a car on-demand that you no longer need to own a car, or use a rideshare service – you just call a car to drive when you need to go somewhere. Rolling out driverless delivery is a huge step towards our goal of offering ubiquitous carshare on-demand. Talk about “ghost ridin’ the whip.” Nandakumar spoke to Halo.Car’s next phase achievement: ![]() From there, a remote driver at HQ will once again take control of the EV, which will appear to drive off on its own. ![]() Beginning today, customers in Las Vegas can book a Halo.Car, which will be remotely piloted to their designated location without anyone inside.įrom there, the customer can hop in, use the EV at will, and then park it and end their rental whenever they are done. Halo.Car continues to prove remote piloting is viableįollowing four years of operating with safety drivers present inside its EVs, Halo.Car shared that it has gone driverless… inside its Kias, at least. Today, however, the startup announced it entered phase three, removing the safety driver altogether. Deliveries of the car solely via a remote pilotĪt the time, I experienced Halo.Car during phase two.Deliveries of the car remotely with no one inside, with a chase car.Deliveries of the car by a remote pilot, with a safety driver inside.Deliveries of the car, manual driver inside the vehicle.This past January, during CES, I got the chance to visit Halo.HQ and ride along with founder and CEO Anand Nandakumar (and a safety driver), who walked me through the company’s four-phase process in reaching seamless carshare mobility: The startup’s carshare business has been partially underway in the streets of Vegas, but with several fail-safes in place to ensure the safety of everyone inside and outside of the vehicles. Halo.Car uses remote drivers authorized to operate the fleet of EVs using video and sensor data streamed from proprietary software and hardware retrofitted onto electric Kia Niros. We’ve covered plenty of other startups implementing autonomous robotaxi routes in California and even Halo.Car’s home city of Vegas, but this startup team feels fully-autonomous taxis are still years away. Here’s the kicker, though… there’s no one inside. Instead of developing another business requiring designated parking areas or customers to pick up and return their rented vehicles somewhere, Halo.Car drops off and picks up the EV wherever you are. Halo.Car is a Las Vegas-based startup focused on taking the carshare program and turning it on its head. Watch as the empty EV turns heads around downtown Las Vegas in the video below. Today, the carshare startup announced it had removed the safety drivers from all its EVs, claiming to be the first company in the world to enable electric vehicles to be commercially remote-piloted on public roads without a human present inside. Unique remote-piloted EV delivery service Halo.Car has taken a big step forward in its progress of transitioning more people over to electric vehicles. ![]()
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