Autonomous Vehicles for Mobility on Demand

[2016-09-30 Fri 20:00:53] speaker: James Fu, nuTonomy event: Friday Hacks

aims to provide a autonomous taxi fleet

previously was SMART AV team, then started nuTonomy had to rewrite the software from scratch partnership with Grab

50+ person technical team in Singapore and Cambridge Found that 300k AVs are sufficient for Singapore, currently there are about 1M vehicles

working on

fleet management in the cloud
self driving tech (see, decide, do)
- minimize jerk
- LTL and formal logic for decision making
booking app, ride monitoring
teleoperation, simulation, verification

challenges