"We had a fit-for-purpose car with a redundant architecture, with all the safety required for this type of application, Boussaid said."
"[The Gravity] required minimal changes, minimal fitting to operate as a robotaxi as opposed to some of the existing solutions right now where you have to add a lot of sensors like lidar and so forth, he said."
Uber partnered with up to 18 companies to launch driverless rides and will use Nuro's autonomous driver on over 20,000 Lucid Gravity SUVs beginning next year. Uber committed a $300 million investment in Lucid as part of the deal. Lucid selected the Gravity because it features redundant electrical and controls architectures, including duplicate steering, braking, control units, and extra communication pathways, which reduce the need for costly retrofits. The Gravity currently offers a Level 2 DreamDrive Pro system, but its fit-for-purpose safety design makes faster operationalization of higher-level, driverless robotaxi systems possible.
Read at insideevs.com
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]