Self-driving
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.
A dated step forward on the record
What the source says
“Uber’s program with Lucid and Nuro now calls for at least 35,000 Gravity vehicles globally, up from Uber’s original commitment to 20,000”
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.
Human help: A person sits at the wheel, ready to take over.
More on Nuro Driver
- Uber, Nuro and Lucid named Houston as their second city. Nuro is testing there around the clock with safety operators.
- 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.