The manufacturer Mercedes-Benz plans in two years the serial production of robot taxis.
This year you want to test with highly automated vehicles (level 4 to 5) in San José begin in the US state of California. In two years, these vehicles will then run in large numbers off the line.
San José is to become a pilot city for automated ride-sharing services: Daimler and Bosch are offering an app-based fully automated and autonomous (SAE Level 4/5) ride-on service (Ride-Hailing) in Mercedes-Benz S-Classes. Source: Daimler.
Still working Mercedes Benz along with Bosch in the development of autonomous driving, soon you will be involved in this regard BMW combine. Nevertheless, they want to start producing automated vehicles for the taxi service within two years. Specifically, 2021 around 10,000 such vehicles are to be on the road.
Actually, Daimler wanted to be in the development do not hurry so much, but now one seems to plan to become the first manufacturer to build autonomous taxis. The establishment of such vehicle fleets is also the test topic in San José. Thus, the vehicles are ordered by app and probably also paid for it.
The robotic taxis from Mercedes-Benz will initially be marketed in the US and in Europe. It is already being negotiated with some cities, so the source,
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