The robotaxi industry has spent billions of dollars developing vehicles that can drive without a human behind the wheel.
But removing the driver creates another problem: the vehicle may be autonomous on the road, but it still needs people and infrastructure to charge it, clean it, inspect it and keep it ready for its next passenger.
As robotaxi fleets expand, those seemingly mundane operations could become a significant constraint. Large centralized depots require land, electrical capacity and staff, while every journey to and from them takes a vehicle out of revenue-generating service. [Read more…] about Aseon CEO: ‘The opportunity is to make vehicle servicing as autonomous as driving’