Mr. Ng said the Uber crash had not affected Drive.ai’s rollout plans. Drive.ai was founded in 2015 by Mr. Ng’s wife, Carol Reiley, a roboticist, and several students who worked in a Stanford University A.I. A Texas law passed in the fall also lets companies operate self-driving services with no restrictions from municipal governments. When Drive.ai’s free, daytime-only service begins this summer, it will be open to 10,000 people who live or work in the area. But as the program expands, Drive.ai plans on moving drivers into the passenger seat and out of the cars entirely by the end of the year.

Source: New York Times May 07, 2018 23:37 UTC