Voyage was a self-driving car company; its blog covers lidar, its robotaxi deployments in retirement communities, and driverless safety.
HN commenters mainly discuss its strategy of deploying in retirement communities; a Voyage employee invites readers for a ride.
In addition to going into highly dense cities and inserting autonomous cars into existing driver regulation; an interesting auxiliary strategy could be to partner with a master planned community that was designed from the ground up (physically and regulation wise) to be an autonomous first town where the majority of vehicles were autonomous and the majority of home owners were pro-autonomous cars.
The roads and pedestrian crossings could be much clearly marked with RF transceivers, etc. and the inclement weather could be pre-considered. HOA agreement could have a "I agree to co-exist with autonomous cars" TOS clause and perhaps a built in monthly subscription.
I think a ton of home builders (Lennar, etc.) and senior community developers (Ventas) would be interested if only as a PR concept. I also think a lot of remote Techies/senior citizens would be interested [1]. Sort of like this but replace golf carts with autonomous cars.[2]
[1] https://news.voyage.auto/why-retirement-communities-are-perfect-for-self-driving-cars-8bc35edfa804
[2] Tom Scott - City of Golf Carts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcVGqtmd2wM
Come for a ride (oliver@voyage.auto)! I think you might be impressed with where our technology is. It's really quite good. A lot has happened since August 2017.
We're heavily focused on a retirement city in Florida (125,000 residents on 750 miles of road) and on our G2 vehicle[1]. We recently signed a deal with Enterprise to commercially lease many, many more vehicles than our three initial prototype G1 vehicles.
1. https://news.voyage.auto/introducing-the-voyage-g2-autonomous-vehicle-5e15cca399b5