Xconomy: After Y Combinator, May Mobility Ready to Test Self-Driving Fleets
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May Mobility has emerged from stealth with the announcement that it has just completed a stint in Y Combinator, an elite startup accelerator in Silicon Valley, and is headed back to Michigan to start work on a set of pilot projects.But rather than targeting consumers directly, some companies and startups are working on aftermarket technologies that are carmaker-agnostic and could be used to implement a vision of shareable autonomous vehicles, in the form of fleets of taxis, shuttles, and the like.“So it’s that, plus intellectual property from [the leadership team’s] previous lives.” Olson told TechCrunch that May Mobility has created a technology stack that could be an aftermarket installation “to offer autonomy” on existing vehicle platforms designed for fleet service.In 2010, Olson led the winning team in the U.S. Department of Defense’s MAGIC competition after developing a crew of 14 robots that semi-autonomously explored and mapped a 500-by-500-meter arena simulating an urban environment.Named one of Popular Science’s “Brilliant Ten” in 2012, he also spent many hours in university parking lots refining software to help Ford’s small fleet of autonomous research vehicles, a collaboration between U-M and the automaker, see and navigate their surrounding areas.
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