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Nuro expands driverless autonomous vehicle testing in push to attract customers

Nuro is rolling out test fleet of its its driverless, passenger-less R3 vehicles across the Bay Area and Houston, two months after the the autonomous

Nuro, which has raised more than $2 billion from high-profile investors like Tiger Global Management and Softbank Vision Fund, had planned to own and operate a fleet of low-speed, on-road delivery bots. Nuro scrapped plans to mass produce the vehicles and pivoted after multiple rounds of layoffs and other cost-cutting measures weren’t enough to sustain its original business model. For the first time, Nuro will test its vehicles and autonomy stack at speeds of up to 35 miles per hour in Palo Alto and Mountain View, California, and Houston.

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