Uber and Momenta will test fully driverless cars in Germany

Uber and one of its galore robotaxi partners, Momenta, volition trial afloat driverless cars successful Germany adjacent year. The quality comes arsenic Europe continues to lag down the US and China successful the fig of commercially operational robotaxi services.

The companies accidental they volition trial Level 4 autonomous vehicles successful Munich starting successful 2026. (Level 4 describes afloat driverless vehicles, without information drivers, that tin run anyplace wrong a defined geographic area.) If everything goes according to program successful Munich, Uber says that Momenta robotaxis could beryllium coming to further European cities successful the years to come.

Momenta is based successful Shanghai, wherever it is presently operating its ain robotaxi service. Earlier this year, Uber said it would let the institution to adhd its robotaxis to its ridehailing platform, though it would beryllium cities extracurricular the US and China. Uber besides said that Momenta’s robotaxis would diagnostic information monitors down the instrumentality astatine launch, earlier yet transitioning to afloat driverless vehicles.

Momenta, which has received backing from China’s state-owned SAIC Motor, GM, Toyota, Mercedes-Benz, and Bosch, presently supplies operator assistance bundle to a fig of automakers, including Mercedes and BMW.

Though it presently lags down the US and China, Europe is starting to spot much robotaxi enactment that signals the floodgates could soon beryllium open. In summation to Uber and Momenta, China’s Baidu and Lyft program connected bringing driverless taxis to the UK and Germany successful 2026. Volkswagen has besides been investigating autonomous vehicles successful Germany for respective years, and precocious said it would launch its ain robotaxi service with — you guessed it — Uber successful Los Angeles successful 2026.