"The rapid succession of robotaxi deployments from companies like Waymo and Zoox have people in the industry, once again, dreaming about how autonomous vehicles might change our daily lives. That includes driverless taxi rides, sure, but also headier ideas like sending an autonomous vehicle to fetch groceries or pick up dry cleaning. If those things are ultimately going to happen, navigating the handoff moments - like where exactly a vehicle should stop to receive the groceries - will be a crucial piece of the puzzle."
""We aren't the fundamental models. We're not building the cars. We're not doing anything like that. We are simply saying, as this industry balloons rapidly and has exponential growth - as is already occurring this year and will occur for the next 10 years straight - someone is going to have to sit in the middle and orchestrate, coordinate, and kind of evaluate what's going on.""
Rapid robotaxi deployments from companies like Waymo and Zoox are prompting expectations for services such as driverless taxi rides and autonomous vehicle errands. Handoff moments, like precise vehicle stop locations for pickups, are essential to enable those services. Palo Alto–based Autolane raised $7.4 million to build infrastructure coordinating pickup and drop-off points on private property. Backers include Draper Associates and Hyperplane. Autolane signed with Simon Property Group to manage driverless vehicle access at shopping centers in Austin and San Francisco, providing physical signage and software. Autolane positions itself as an application-layer orchestrator rather than a vehicle or model developer.
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