AutoX Fully Driverless RoboTaxi in Urban Villages #AutoXRoboTaxi

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This is a video showcasing how AutoX fully driverless RoboTaxi deals with the ultimate autonomous driving challenge of road conditions in urban villages. Unique to Asia, urban villages are ultra high-density residential neighborhoods in major cities. The public roads in urban villages are extremely busy, chaotic and overcrowded, especially around dinner hours. In the video, the AutoX fully driverless RoboTaxi needed to nudge its way out of dense crowds, bikers, scooters, and pets surrounding the self-driving vehicle.


About AutoX:

AutoX is a leading RoboCar company in the world, with the mission of ‘Democratizing Autonomy’ to accelerate the advent of fully driverless cars. It was founded in 2016 by Dr. Jianxiong Xiao (a.k.a. Professor X), a self-driving technologist from MIT and Princeton. The company’s self-driving platform is known to be capable of handling the most challenging and dynamic traffic scenarios in urban cities around the world. AutoX is the first and currently only company operating a fully driverless RoboTaxi service on public roads in an asian city without safety drivers. AutoX is also the second company to obtain California DMV’s completely driverless RoboTaxi permit. AutoX has deployed over 1,000 RoboCars in Shenzhen, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Beijing, and other cities. In January 2021, AutoX launched the world’s second fully driverless RoboTaxi service that is open to the public. AutoX has 10 operations centers, 5 R&D centers, and over 1,000 technical team members globally.


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Definitely interesting. I like that it does short bursts when there are pedestrians and then sees what happens. Those are crazy streets!

Author — @robmiller4042

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Wow. City planners were like, "Pedestrians? Nah, screw them. They can share the roads with the cars."

These guys are going to end up with the most sophisticated temporary obstacle avoidance algorithm in the world...

Author — @JeffNipp

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Very impressive! It would have been interesting to see it in situations that are more ambiguous, where you have to interpret traffic signs, etc.

Author — @BjornMoren

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It seems to handle the chaos pretty well.

Author — @DucNguyen-cq5iw

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wow, the most impressive autopilot demo I have ever seen

Author — @HTTimChen

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The autonomous car that can go on these roads is on all the chaotic roads of the world. :)

Author — @mustafaaslan4085

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Impressive but definitely many moments required other people to adjust or even completely have to back out of the way.

Still though, happy to see these technologies being developed as over 1.3 million people die a year from vehicle accidents.

Author — @Raysliquidity

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7:00 Pedestrian with black outfit walking(from right) and about to cross the road and the car seems to be aware of it. Impressive.

Author — @annurraudhah

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Impressive.

But once pedestrians realise driverless cars will always give way some of them will always walk in front of the cars. The cars will have to be programmed to honk at people.

Author — @tjejojyj

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You can just feel the other drivers getting pissed off this robot and I love that!

Author — @Mark-kt5mh

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The only thing this car lacks is hustle.

Author — @aeonsleo2

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It really needs to learn that it can't alpha everyone else on those one-lane two-way streets all the time lol.

Author — @Sean_735

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Also... Wow... Lane too narrow for 2 way traffic and it (eventually) figured out that it needed to back up for oncoming traffic.

Also also... Rush hour? What time is rush hour here?

Author — @JeffNipp

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It would be even more awesome if it had lasers equipped to blast pedestrians.

Author — @arcadia5607

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From this video, it seems it is extremely easy to put this vehicle in a deadlock position.

Author — @MaksymCzech

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Test the car in India as well, then it will be fit for pretty much anywhere on earth. 😊😁

Author — @SubhamSatapathy

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3:11 -- Laudable that the car swerves out to *hit* a jay-walking doggo, in compliance with China's strict anti-canine laws.

Just joking, as it is of course due to a latency in the path planner seeking to avoid the innocent but fast-moving pupper.

Highly impressive work though, as this is the first SDC I've ever seen which will back up to resolve an intractable situation in wild narrow streets, or even force the opposing driver to do so.


Naturally the onboard sensor suite & one metric fuckton of NVIDIA compute must cost at least $40k, but still it shows that Waymo has some serious competition coming out of China.

Author — @foobarrel9046

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Jeje, el tiempo del trayecto habría que verlo...

Author — @jorgepalmaenamorado8935

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The driving is extremely cautious and careful, but clearly it is not well suited for these settings. Real driver would just scream angrily at those pedestrians blocking the way and cover the same distance 10 times faster, without creating a road block.

Author — @MaksymCzech

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00:53 start to get into some serious driving

Author — @andylupin6933