Autonomous Vehicle News
Motional, the $4 billion joint venture between Aptiv and Hyundai, is exploring the company’s potential involvement in autonomous trucking or logistics, its CEO said today during a live session at TechCrunch’s 2021 Mobility Event. “We’re looking for a great business opportunity that has the closest adjacency from a technical perspective to the stack that we’re currently developing,” said Iagnemma, responding to what is most appealing in the delivery and logistics model. These different use cases have, in some cases, quite dramatically different business cases around them, the opportunity looks quite different. “[The robotaxi] market will take time to evolve, whereas the freight and trucking market is here today,” said Urmson. Building an autonomous stack to drive on freeways is easier due to their mostly uniform nature.