,” an attempt to map the growing number of places where mostly autonomous vehicles are out on roads and sidewalks carrying members of the public or cargo for them with no safety driver or other employee in the vehicle. Map markers in red indicate this state of full autonomy, other colors show public robotaxi service with an employee still in the vehicle, and some services planned to open up to the public in the future.
Most of the markers are smaller ones for delivery robots. These robots can never have a human on board, though most receive occasional advice from remote operators. Companies listed were asked to only provide vehicles that ran without remote operate guides a considerable majority of the time. Some of these robots operate on roads, but many operate on sidewalks, going on roads only in crosswalks. The sidewalk is an easier space to go autonomous, which is why there are more of these in production.
There are two layers in the map, one for robotaxis and one for delivery robots. Only autonomous delivery robots — including class 4 trucks from Gatik — are in that layer. The Robotaxi layer includes some projects which are not yet live and some with safety drivers which are marked with blue and orange markers.
Not shown are the many test projects which don’t serve the public. There are scores of these. If a good list of these is created, a new layer will be added. You can turn the visibility of the layers on and off to see only one type. I’ve left Motional/Nutonomy’s home base in Singapore on the map as the only testbed.
These are not true autonomous vehicles like Tesla's FSD. These 'autonomous' vehicles are like roller coasters where the rails are pre-mapped routes and software. Truly not autonomy at all
The map should be blank. Non of them serving anyone.
these are not true autonomous offerings like Tesla's FSD. These other 'autonomous' vehicles are akin to a rollercoaster, like you're on actual rails, but the geofenced areas and pre-mapped software are the 'rails'.. this is not true autonomy