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German remote-driving firm hopes to make private car ownership redundant
Europe has been slow to embrace robotaxis but Germany will allow remote-controlled rental cars from December
Sztendel works for Vay – the name mimics the way many Germans pronounce “way” – a remote-driving tech company set up in Berlin in 2018 with the aim of revolutionising mobility in Europe’s cities. Though not as bold as the laws that allow companies such as Waymo and Cruise to operate self-driving vehicles in, respectively, Los Angeles and San Francisco, it nonetheless pointed to a new willingness of a large European car manufacturing country to experiment with a technology of which many remain wary, with cost and safety concerns still major obstacles but increasingly less of a hindrance. Many controllers have reportedly been recruited from Uber, as well as from more conventional taxi companies – especially female drivers “who have described horrible knife attacks and facing other safety concerns”, according to von der Ohe.
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