Motional Partners With Uber Eats For Santa Monica Automated Deliveries In 2022

Motional Partners With Uber Eats For Santa Monica Automated Deliveries In 2022

Rendering of Motional Hyundai Ioniq 5 automated vehicle configured for deliveries with Uber Eats Back in the early to middle 2010s as development of automated driving systems was taking off once everyone realized what Google GOOG was doing with its team of DARPA Grand Challenge veterans, the focus was almost exclusively on moving people. But as the difficulty of the problem became ever more apparent, most of the companies pursuing the technology began to turn their attention to moving goods. The latest to jump into automated deliveries is Motional, the joint venture of Aptiv APTV and Hyundai. Motional has been carrying paying passengers on the Lyft LYFT platform in Las Vegas since 2018 and earlier this year announced that the gambling mecca would be one of several cities where it plans to launch a driverless robotaxi service in 2023. Lyft also announced that the new Hyundai Ioniq 5 would be the vehicle platform used for its robotaxis. Waymo, Argo AI, Cruise and others have already been using their automated driving prototypes for deliveries for several years. Cruise recently showed off a locker module that can be slid into its upcoming Origin taxi allowing it to switch between people and packages