"Let's put aside the Tesla vs. Waymo debate and talk about Wayve. The UK-based startup, founded in 2017, is yet another company that has autonomous-driving technology ambitions, but it's not building a robotaxi platform like Waymo. Nor is it a car or robotics manufacturer like Tesla. Wayve's goal is to develop a highly capable Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS) that it can license to other automakers. Think a flexible version of Tesla's Full Self-Driving (Supervised) that can be plugged into any automaker's cars."
"The startup is working on fully driverless systems, but it also sees an untapped market in licensing supervised self-driving technology. I tried a demo of an ADAS system powered by Wayve's AV2.0 AI driver in San Francisco, taking a nearly hourlong ride inside a Ford Mustang Mach-E. The car was retrofitted with five cameras, a radar, and Wayve's AI driver."
"Two Wayve spokespeople joined me for the ride to answer questions I had about the technology, along with a "vehicle safety operator" who was behind the wheel in case he had to intervene during the ride. In some ways, it reminded me of a Tesla robotaxi, a ride-hailing service that - in SF - operates with a safety monitor behind the wheel."
Wayve is a UK startup founded in 2017 building an Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS) intended for licensing to automakers. The company aims to offer supervised self-driving technology as a flexible, pluggable system rather than a robotaxi or vehicle. A San Francisco demo used a retrofitted Ford Mustang Mach-E equipped with five cameras, a radar, and Wayve's AV2.0 AI driver, with a vehicle safety operator present. Two Wayve spokespeople accompanied the demo. The demo drew comparisons to Tesla's supervised FSD and raised questions about the importance of large proprietary driving datasets and software ownership.
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