Self-drivingSelf-driving car developer (closed)
Argo AI
by Argo AI (backed by Ford and Volkswagen)
Argo AI built self-driving car technology with money from Ford and Volkswagen. It tested cars with no one at the wheel in Miami and Austin, then shut down in October 2022. Fortune, 27 Oct 2022
EndedFord and Volkswagen shut Argo AI down in October 2022. The stage below shows how far it got.
- Evidence
- Independently reported
- Human help
- Not disclosed
- Last milestone
- Oct 2022
01Can I get it?
Only through a trial
- Where it works today
- Not stated in our sources.
- Published price
- No published price in our sources.
- Human help
- The maker hasn't said whether people help it remotely.
02Track record
What has actually happened
Every milestone is dated and links to the page it comes from. Lines marked company-reported rest on the maker's own word.
03Safety and incidents
What has gone wrong
No crashes, recalls or regulator reports in our sources. That is not proof none happened; we add them when a regulator or trusted outlet reports one.
How we placed it
The rule, not an opinion
Stages are worked out by published rules from the dated milestones above. We never rate robots, and no maker can pay to change a stage.
- 5
Regulator-cleared or mass market
A regulator has cleared it where approval applies: FDA clearance or approval for a medical robot, a permit to run with no one aboard for a self-driving vehicle, or an FAA approval for routine drone flights. Or: Widely sold: sales in the hundreds of thousands, or a product category you can buy in ordinary shops.
- 4
Paying customers
Delivered to customers who pay for it, beyond a trial, or a paid service the public can use.
- 3
PilotThis robot
Working with a named customer in a real setting, as a trial.
Placed by: Some Argo cars were offered to riders in Miami Beach through the Lyft app (2022).
- 2
Pre-orders
Orders, reservations or deposits taken, with nothing delivered yet.
- 1
Demo only
Shown in videos, staged events or a factory, with no units working for customers.
What we couldn't confirm. Fortune spells the co-founder's name 'Brian'; he is usually written Bryan Salesky. Argo never ran a paid public robotaxi service.
Sources
Cite this page
Robotics Verdict. “Argo AI (Argo AI (backed by Ford and Volkswagen)): how far has it got?” roboticsverdict.com/robots/argo-ai. Checked 19 October 2026.
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