The company plans to launch a robotaxi service.
in Germany, using its fifth-generation autonomous technology, starting in 2025. Argo is the latest to routinely test its vehicles without human safety drivers behind the wheels, following Waymo, Cruise, and Motional.
But Argo is claiming that it is the first company to conduct driverless testing in two cities simultaneously. And it emphasized that its vehicles will operate during “daytime hours,” an apparent reference to the fact that Cruise’s vehicles are only authorized to drive in San Francisco at nighttime. “Argo is first to go driverless in two major American cities, safely operating amongst heavy traffic, pedestrians and bicyclists in the busiest of neighborhoods,” said Bryan Salesky, founder and CEO of Argo AI, in a statement. “From day one, we set out to tackle the hardest miles to drive — in multiple cities — because that’s where the density of customer demand is, and where our autonomy platform is developing the intelligence required to scale it into a sustainable business.
Going driverless is a huge moment for AV companies, mainly because it demonstrates that the technology is mature enough to tackle the core task of driving without a safety driver present to take the wheel in the event of a problem. Argo employees will ride in the passenger seats during this phase of testing as the company prepares to launch a robotaxi service in the near future.
Currently, only a small handful of AV operators have actually deployed fully driverless vehicles, also known as Level 4 autonomous vehicles, on public roads. Waymo, the self-driving unit of Alphabet, has been operating its Level 4 vehicles in the suburbs of Phoenix for several years now, including
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