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Nuro is rolling out a test fleet of itsdriverless , rider - less R3vehicles across the Bay Area and Houston , two months after the autonomous vehicle engineering science startupchanged its business strategyto license its AV technical school to automakers and mobility providers .
The large - scale leaf demo , which will elaborate the domain where Nuro currently tests , is designed to show potential customer Nuro ’s technology . The inauguration ’s pass is two - fold . For OEMs , Nuro hop to sell automated drive product for rider and commercial-grade vehicles . For goods delivery and ride - hail companies , Nuro ’s fully driverless technology — including hardware and computer software — is up for cut-rate sale .
Nuro , which has bring up more than $ 2 billion from high - profile investors like Tiger Global Management and SoftBank Vision Fund , had planned to own and control a fleet of low - swiftness , on - route obstetrical delivery bots . It performed delivery pilots with Domino ’s and FedEx , and still run a pocket-sized - scale of measurement delivery operation forUber Eats . Nuro ’s R3 robot was mean to be the inauguration ’s next - propagation fomite , and this year itreceived approvalfrom the California Department of Motor Vehicles to elaborate testing . Nuro trash plans to stack - farm the vehicles and pivoted after multiple rounds of layoffs and other monetary value - cutting measures were n’t enough to corroborate its original business model .
For the first fourth dimension , Nuro will test its vehicles and autonomy push-down list at speeds of up to 35 international nautical mile per hr in Palo Alto and Mountain View , California , and Houston .
The improved technology is now also able to handle more complex driving scenarios — such as reacting to emergency brake vehicle , navigate construction zones , and responding to shoal bus topology — without rely on a distant safety operator , Nuro Chief Operating Officer Andrew Chapin recount TechCrunch . This is also the first time Nuro will try its vehicles at night without a base hit driver , fit in to Chapin .
“ [ The run is ] across a greatly expand geography , but also the complexity of it effectively permit us to drive on all roads , sans pike at this point , ” Chapin say . “ When you think about our journey towards work up a really scalable , safe , cost - effective autonomy system , this kind of establish a new base camp on the ascent up the mountain , in term of what our system can do without the keep of any kind of safety driver . ”
