Self-driving cars could be operating daily in one to two years – just not in big cities

The G3’s ambulance-grade U-VC lighting activated. The ugly truth is that self-driving technology remains years away from being safe and scalable in dense cities, said Cameron. — Voyage

Oliver Cameron co-founded the self-driving car startup Voyage in 2017 on the theory that retirement communities are the perfect place to launch a robo-taxi service.

Their low-speed, low-traffic roads make the engineering challenge easier. And retirees, many of whom are unwilling or unable to drive themselves, are an obvious clientele. “We’re focused on serving senior citizens, who we believe are the best first customer for driverless technology,” says Cameron.