The EV that can be delivered to a customer's hotel through a combination of low-level autonomy and tele- assist technology is being developed by Arcimoto. Tourists will be able to go sightseeing with FUVs in Las Vegas as a result of the tie-up.
Arcimoto's FUVs will be equipped with Faction's sensor suite of cameras and radar, which will handle tasks like lane assist and collision avoidance. GoCar wants to eventually expand this tour to include Red Rock Canyon and the Hoover Dam, and the vehicles will have a tablets that will show the tour on a map. A five-mile stretch of road with a 30 mile-per-hour speed limit will be the site of the GoCar depot. The tourists will collect the FUVs and drive them along the tour route at their own pace before dropping themselves and the vehicles back at their hotels.
quotations around "drive themselves" are used for a reason. It is possible for the system to drive itself from A to B on a preset route and stop if it is unable to complete a task. It depends on the teleoperator. The teleoperator can change the trajectory line that the vehicle is following to go around an object or into a parking lot.
The partnership between Arcimoto and GoCar will initially involve about 20 vehicles, but the companies hope to expand the offering to an additional 290 vehicles across Vegas and other cities where GoCar operates.
Level 5 autonomy is a research project that is at least a decade away from actually commercializing and teleoperation is a necessary component to scaling autonomously. The startup is building its business by focusing on doing a right-sized tech stack with right-sized vehicles instead of fitting out a vehicle with expensive lidar and the latest technology.
Ain McKendrick, the CEO and founder of the company, said that their current vehicle systems are under $35,000. We put on up to $13,000 worth of tech with the Arcimoto vehicle platform. I don't want their latest and greatest liquid-cooledOmniverse thing that's going to take a trunk and a minivan to run. I would like to have two generations back in their automotive-grade package.
The benefit of being a second wave company is that they aren't trying to solve all of the edge cases just yet. As it relates to its partnership with Arcimoto and Gocar, Faction is just trying to replace the human that would otherwise deliver those vehicles to customers.
"Our goal is to be profitable at the $2 per mile price point out the gate, not to have the promise that it'll be cost- reduced 10 years from now"
A vehicle is on the Las Vegas strip.
GoCar is here for the potential cost-savings to its business, which is why it has a tour car drive itself to a customer's hotel.
The economies of having multiple locations is challenging because you don't know where the customer is going to be There are at least 10 cars available at one location and at least 30 on a waiting list at the other. It's a nightmare to move cars across town.
If customers are able to summon a vehicle, where GoCar stores them is less important. It will be easier to clean and prepare the cars when they're all accounted for.
Go Car is working with Arcimoto to give tourists FUVs. Fuvs are the first type of EV the company has put in its fleet that can cross bridges and is highway legal. Tourists like to drive them.
The partnership will allow Arcimoto to expand its reach as a tourist offering for vehicles, as well as build on its partnership with Faction. The two started working on the D1 last year and have been running pilots in the Bay Area since July.
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