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Robotaxi

We define a robotaxi as an autonomous vehicle that is publicly hailable (e.g. via an app) and carries humans (rather than goods).

i.e. a privately owned & operated autonomous vehicle, even if operating on public roads, is not a robotaxi.

Robotaxis must also go on a route (A>B) as defined by the rider, rather than e.g. an autonomous shuttle on a fixed route.

Other consumer autonomous vehicles

One edge case could be if an autonomous vehicle is made available to hotel guests (but not publicly hailable). As any consumer (with sufficient means) can pay to become a hotel guest, these are within scope for this wiki although we wouldn't necessarily call them robotaxis.

Likewise, if a car-hire company is able to rent out an autonomous vehicle to consumers, we may include their services in this wiki although these are not robotaxis.

We are focussed on ground transport (e.g. not autonomous eVTOL).

Page groups

These definitions are work in progress, however:

• A mobility platform is an entity that a consumer interacts with, that operates vehicles, and is available in multiple geographies. Vertically integrated entities (e.g. those that market and retail to consumers, and operate robotaxi vehicles) are mobility platforms

• A vehicle is something that an operator may buy and operate in order to become a platform, however an operator/vehicle combination may choose to distribute via Retail & MaaS. We don't intend to list every concept vehicle, but we list some

• An operator doesn't have their own vehicles, or driving capability, but is operating autonomous vehicle services that consumers can use

• A driver is technology that can drive a vehicle. Normally you would find the driver within an independent vehicle, or within a mobility platform vehicle, but there are a few companies that we want to list here but are neither a vehicle nor a mobility platform

There is some overlap (and entities can move between page groups over time).

Automotive OEM companies

As most OEMs have investments in mobility platforms, we tend to focus on on the mobility platforms rather than the OEMs themselves. Info about OEM concept vehicles tends to be published in vehicles, even if those vehicles may ultimately be used within their mobility platforms