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Drive.ai self-driving van
Nissan NV200
Bright orange Nissan NV200 vans with exterior screens that told pedestrians what the vehicle was doing. They ran fixed-area routes with a safety operator.
- Price
- —service only, not sold
- Autonomy
- Level 4No driver needed in its area
- Driverless
- Not yetSafety driver on board
- Fleet
- 3Reported; details below
- Speed
- —Not published
- Range
- —Not published
Why it matters
Its Frisco, Texas pilot was one of the first on-demand self-driving ride services open to the public in Texas.
Real-world use
Ran a six-month public pilot in Frisco, Texas from mid-2018 and a three-van service in Arlington from October 2018; Apple acquired the company in June 2019 and the services ended.
Timeline
- First shown
- 2018-05
- Released
- 2018-07
Maker
Drive.aiCompanyHow it drives
Fleet and city figures move fast; each carries its date and who reported it.
- Driverless status
- Safety driver on board
- Where it runs
- Frisco and Arlington (Texas), 2018-2019
- Fleet
- 3 vans in Arlington (October 2018)
- SAE level
- Level 4: drives itself with no one at the controls inside its approved area
Public attention
A historic robot: no longer sold or in use, so it is not ranked against current vehicles.
- No Wikipedia article of its own yet
- No recent press stories listed yet
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What’s inside
No component details published yet.
- Movement
- Wheeled base
- How it runs
- Supervised. Works by itself while a person watches and steps in.
From the maker
Drive.ai self-driving van (Nissan NV200) is the only vehicle from Drive.ai in the atlas.
Made, sold and where
No production or sales figures published yet.
- Price
- Not publishedservice only, not sold
- How to get one
- No official buying page found
Side by side with its peers
Picked by the same rules for every robot: another maker’s robot that moves the same way, is at the same stage and does at least one of the same main jobs, first shown within two years. Closer size and price rank higher. How we choose
| Measure | Drive.ai self-driving van (Nissan NV200)Drive.ai |  Easy Ride robo-vehicle (Nissan LEAF)Nissan with DeNASame job: ride-hail · Both on wheels · Both past robots |  Aptiv self-driving BMW 5 Series (Lyft Las Vegas)Aptiv (later Motional)Same job: ride-hail · Both on wheels · Both past robots |  Uber ATG self-driving Volvo XC90Uber Advanced Technologies Group with Volvo CarsSame job: ride-hail · Both on wheels · Both past robots |
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| First shown | 2018-05 | 2017-12 | 2018-01 | 2017-02 |
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Sources
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