Oxa has announced the third commercial deployment of its Oxa Driver service in the US, a little over a year since the autonomous vehicle (AV) software developer changed its name from Oxbotica and enlisted Google Cloud to accelerate the global take-up of its platform,
The deployment is being carried out in collaboration with autonomous shared mobility firm Beep, and will see Oxa Driver installed on Beep’s autonomous shuttles operated in a pilot programme for the Contra Costa Transportation Authority (CCTA) servicing Rossmoor Walnut Creek, a 55-plus active senior community in California, says Computer Weekly.
Named Presto, the autonomous shuttle service is CCTA’s first pilot leveraging Oxa Driver and Oxa’s first West Coast project with Beep.
The autonomous shuttles can carry up to seven seated and secured passengers, and will operate Monday to Friday from 7am to 5pm with a trained safety attendant on board.
The electric, autonomous shuttles will operate on a predetermined route in the Rossmoor community, running Oxa Driver with Beep managing the planning, deployment and operation of the autonomous mobility network.
As part of this deployment, Oxa also deployed its MetaDriver product, a virtual testing and training suite that uses generative artificial intelligence, digital twins and simulation to accelerate machine learning and testing of self-driving technology before and during real-world use.
