(2 Apr 2025)
GERMANY REMOTE DRIVING
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Berlin, Germany – 2 April 2025
1. Various of remote driver driving car remotely
2. Car interior, steering wheel moving, whilst moving through Berlin streets (security person in driver’s seat, as long as project is still in trial status in Germany)
3. Various of car interior
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Thomas von der Ohe, CEO of VAY:
"We believe, in the future, if robot taxis come, there’s a big question mark, technology-wise and commercially wise, that there will be robot taxis. So, the next generation taxis, Uber and then robot taxis, and there will be driverless car sharing, which we believe is the next generation of car rental or car sharing.”
5. Mid of remote driver pan to screens
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Thomas von der Ohe, CEO of VAY:
"What we built is remote driving technology. You see this here in the background, we’re over the last six and a half years with over 150 people, capital raised of close to $150 million, we built this very unique technology, which we call remote driving.”
7. Screens while driving through Berlin
8. Close of remote driver
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Thomas von der Ohe, CEO of VAY:
"What we see here is a driver who just doesn’t sit physically in the car, but sits here in a remote driving center, and can steer a vehicle just as if he was sitting in the car. So, he has a remote driving wheel. He has all the video streams to see, right, also 360-degrees around the vehicle, so there’s no blind spots, for example, and can, just like a human driver, drive a car remotely.”
10. Car interior, steering wheel moving, whilst driving through Berlin streets
11. Accelerator and brake pedal, not being used
12. Shot taken out of window of moving car, camera serving as rear-view mirror
13. Monitor of remote driver with image of rear-view-camera
14. Remote driver
15. Remote driver’s feet on pedals
16. Front view and rear-view mirror monitors
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Thomas von der Ohe, CEO of VAY:
"On the U.S. side, we have full regulatory approval to launch in various states, and we’ve launched in Nevada and Las Vegas, and we have our plans to grow there. On the regular side, here in Europe, we actually have a deployment in Belgium, right in Antwerp, so we have ongoing regulatory discussions there. And, of course, we had our tests in Hamburg, and are now working with the German government on a law, and we’re in final stages to then, in the very near future, publish that law that would then allow us to scale here in Germany.”
18. Various of the remotely driven car parked, various cameras and receivers
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Thomas von der Ohe, CEO of VAY:
"One very interesting fact is that remote driving is not just a bridge technology. It actually accelerates the rollout of autonomous driving, so of robot taxis. Why? Two reasons. We create lots of high-quality training data. The remote driver creates a lot of data. And second is we can break up the autonomous driving task, make it simpler. We just say 80% going straight, highways, we can do autonomous and the 20% difficult intersection a remote driver could do, and by combining these two, we can also create a robot taxi experience with much less R&D costs and with much less safety risks.”
20. Driving through Berlin, with security person in the driver’s seat,
21. Remote driver
22. Monitors and steering wheel
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ARCHIVE: Las Vegas, U.S. – 7 January 2024
23. Close of Vay smartphone app, requesting rental car to be delivered via remote teledriver
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