May Mobility to launch robotaxis on Uber platform this year in Texas

Startup May Mobility plans to deploy its autonomous vehicles connected the Uber level by the extremity of 2025, starting successful Arlington, Texas, arsenic portion of a multi-year partnership.

The tie-up with Uber offers May Mobility a accidental to turn beyond offering shuttles wrong campuses and planned communities, portion Uber adds May Mobility to its increasing roster of autonomous conveyance collaborators arsenic it works to integrate self-driving tech onto its platform.

For example, Uber has already begun offering Waymo robotaxis connected its app successful Phoenix and Austin, and plans to launch successful Atlanta this summer. That volition enactment it successful contention with Lyft and May Mobility, which precocious announced a akin concern to launch autonomous ride-hail successful Atlanta this year.

As with Uber’s different AV partnerships, customers successful Arlington volition person the enactment to take a May Mobility conveyance — 1 of the startup’s hybrid Toyota Sienna Autono-MaaS vehicles fitted retired with its self-driving tech — erstwhile they publication a ride.

The archetypal deployment successful Arlington volition impact quality information operators down the instrumentality earlier transitioning to driverless. Following archetypal launch, Uber and May Mobility mean to grow to different U.S. markets successful 2026 and “deploy thousands of AVs” implicit “the adjacent fewer years,” according to May Mobility.

May Mobility operates on-demand autonomous microtransit services — fundamentally self-driving shuttles — chiefly successful small-scale areas crossed the U.S., typically connected campuses and successful different low-speed, predefined zones. The startup has piloted its exertion successful Arlington, Texas, arsenic good arsenic successful Ann Arbor, Michigan; Grand Rapids, Minnesota; Peachtree Corners, Georgia; Miami, Florida; and Sun City, Arizona.