Drive.ai, a Silicon Valley-based autonomous vehicle tech startup, has selected the Dallas-Fort Worth area for its first fleet test because of the diversity of cities, and also the number of cities that have very transportation-focused agendas.
Rides will be free to people who download an app to hail one of four bright orange Nissan NV200 micro-vans outfitted with Drive.ai technology.
“Our external communication panels give us a different way to communicate with people outside the car,” Andrew Ng, a Stanford professor of computer science who led AI projects at Baidu and Google said. “If you see the car stopped at a crosswalk as you cross, if there’s no human driver how do you know the car sees you? One way is to use an exterior communication panel that says ‘waiting for you to cross.'”
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