A Beep driverless shuttle. Source: Mayo Clinic
If you live in the downtown areas of Pittsburgh, Palo Alto, Miami, or other autonomous vehicle hotspots, you may have missed the Ford Fusion Hybrids with the bulky lidar sensors on their roofs. The COVID-19 crisis has resulted in many job cuts, as well as work-from-home orders, forcing the big companies developing self-driving vehicles such as Argo AI, Waymo, and Aurora to momentarily halt on-road testing.
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