May Mobility already is ahead, even as ‘tortoise’ of driverless vehicles
When it comes to autonomous vehicles, you can move things, or you can move people without drivers. The logistics applications already are way ahead of the human ones, but May Mobility is sticking with moving people.
And the Toyota-backed startup founded by Edwin Olson has moved into the vanguard of the tricky business of transporting human beings autonomously, where the promise is bright but the reality remains a slog. The company based in Ann Arbor, Mich., has achieved near-unicorn status after just four years in existence by autonomously operating shuttles that are integrated with public-transportation systems in a handful of cities.