Two years ago, we launched our first-generation fleet of self-driving cars at a small retirement community in San Jose. It blows my mind to think how far Voyage has come since then.
Today, Voyage’s self-driving technology is robust, reliable, and capable of complex interactions and maneuvers. We launched our second-generation fleet of self-driving cars with best-in-class sensors and compute, signed unique maintenance and insurance deals with companies like Enterprise and Intact, expanded operations from a 4,000 resident retirement community in San Jose to a 125,000 resident retirement city in Florida, and grew our deployment waitlist to communities containing over 1.1 million residents.
Best of all, we expanded our team of Voyagers from 5 to 50. World-class engineers joined us from great companies like Cruise, Tesla, Uber ATG, Apple SPG, Google, NIO, Twitter, SpaceX, and more. We also welcomed Drew Gray as our CTO, after he built autonomous vehicles at Tesla, Cruise, Otto, and Uber ATG.
Voyage began in retirement communities two years ago because we believed the calm roadway offers a clear path to truly driverless cars today. The progress we’ve made on our self-driving technology has validated that this is true. What’s more, we’ve also validated the transportation opportunity ahead of us, after seeing incredible demand from residents for our product.