Autonomous Vehicle News
Vay is pitching “teledriving,” which involving humans remote-controlling autos from physical steering stations miles away, as an intermediate step to full autonomy. The company said Tuesday it has started to teledrive on predefined routes in Hamburg after the port city granted a permit. “We will now be working with authorities on the next steps to offering this service to externals,” CEO Thomas von der Ohe, who previously worked at self-driving startup Zoox, told Bloomberg News. “So we should be talking months and not years.”Vay’s service is based on teledrivers delivering EVs to customers who would hop in and drive themselves to their desired destination. The startup has collected around $100 million from investors including former Google Chief Financial Officer Patrick Pichette, Kinnevik and venture capital firm Atomico.