Aptiv and Hyundai’s company, Motional, struck a 10-year commercial agreement with ride-hailing service provider Uber.
motional is an association of aptive and Hyundai, which are common especially in Las Vegas offer a robot taxi service. You are already competing with them Via, but also with lyft have already worked together. Now you are cooperating with the competition: Uber. However, they have been working with Uber Eats in California since May.
Uber is already working on autonomous driving. But the department that was researching it was contacted aurora sold. In the meantime, the focus is on connecting travel opportunities and travel requests or transport opportunities and transport requests.
The two companies, Motional and Uber, recently signed a 10-year framework agreement that provides for robotic taxi and delivery services. Motional provides the vehicles with the IONIQ 5 models, which are about level 4 feature. The electrically powered models have over 30 sensors, which is why lidar counts.
The service will then be made available later this year via UberX and Uber Comfort Electric in the USA. The insights into the effectiveness of the service will be shared with Motional so that empty runs and downtimes can be optimised.