The company will still use a remote chase car that tails behind the remotely piloted vehicles initially. That said, Halo isn't at the stage where it's hitting positive unit economics just yet. This is an important step toward achieving Halo's vision of on-demand vehicles being economically viable, according to Anand Nandakumar, founder and CEO of Halo.
Now Halo cars will be delivered to customers with no drivers in the vehicle. Halo has been delivering vehicles to customers in Las Vegas using teleoperations for around a year, but a human driver has always been present in the front seat for safety reasons. Once a remote driver completes a car delivery, they hand over control of the vehicle to the customer and move on to the next vehicle awaiting remote delivery or collection. Those pilots then use the video and sensor data that's streamed in to remotely drive the vehicles. The startup's fleet is kitted out with a suite of six cameras, modems, antennas and other components to send data back to remote pilots at a Halo operations center. Halo.Car, a startup that uses remote operators to deliver rental cars to a customer's door, has launched driverless operations in Las Vegas.ĭriverless operations mean something different for Halo than they do for autonomous vehicle companies like Cruise or Waymo because Halo's vehicles aren't capable of self-driving.
