Self-driving
Uber, Nuro and Lucid named Houston as their second city. Nuro is testing there around the clock with safety operators.
A dated step forward on the record · Company-reported
What the source says
“Nuro is conducting Level 4 on-road testing with safety operators in Houston around the clock.”
What it means
Nuro Driver, from Nuro, is at stage 3 of 5 on our ladder: pilot. Its stage is set by other milestones on its record; this one adds to the history. This line rests on the company's own announcement; no regulator, customer or independent report confirms it in our sources yet.
Human help: A person sits at the wheel, ready to take over.
More on Nuro Driver
- Electrek reported that Uber's robotaxi program with Lucid and Nuro now calls for at least 35,000 Lucid Gravity vehicles worldwide, up from Uber's original commitment of 20,000.
- California's DMV gave Nuro an updated permit to test in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties at up to 45 mph, day or night. Nuro still needs a DMV deployment permit and a CPUC permit before it can charge for driverless rides.
- Select Uber employees began requesting rides in Lucid robotaxis running Nuro's system in the San Francisco Bay Area, with a safety operator behind the wheel. Uber also invested several hundred million dollars in Nuro.
- California's DMV made Nuro the first company with a deployment permit to charge for driverless deliveries, using its small delivery vehicles at up to 25 mph in parts of San Mateo and Santa Clara counties.