Ottopia’s Remote Chauffeur Platform provides remote-driving service/option for your vehicle. It leverages AI and remote driver service to provide car owners with a new level of convenience.
The platform allows car manufacturers (OEMs) and autonomous vehicle (AV) companies to offer a remote driver service.
Car owners can order a remote driver on demand using a white-label app. They can also track the status of their remote driving mission.
Remote drivers have access to a driving station with features like task navigation, network performance notifications, ADAS alerts, and enforced speed limits.
Managers can supervise remote drivers, identify potential car problems, and optimize driver utilization.
The platform is designed to be hardware-agnostic, integrating with existing vehicle components2.
Remote Chauffeur Experience
With the remote chauffeur experience, anyone who owns a car will soon save over a hundred driving hours a year, and benefit from new levels of safety and comfort. Examples include:
- Calling a remote driver to drop me off, go find parking, and pick me up later
- Transferring my car to my spouse across town
- Using my car for a quick pick up or delivery
- Drive me in traffic
To bring these experiences to life, Ottopia developed a platform that runs on the vehicle, on the remote driving station, and in the cloud. The rest of this blog post discusses the overall platform. Next week, we will dive deeper into the core technology.
For the remote driver, we offer the full driving station as well as tools to provide him/her with context on the task at hand, whether dropping me off and finding parking or driving me home from a bar. The station includes a variety of mission and safety features, such as:
- Task to perform
- Navigation
- Network performance notifications
- ADAS alerts
- Enforced speed limits
- Camera prioritization per task
Finally, we offer tools for the operations manager. With these tools, the remote manager can supervise the remote drivers, quickly identify potential car problems, and optimize driver utilization:
Accelerated Deployment Program for Car OEMs
In addition to the full product suite, Ottopia now offers an accelerated deployment program for OEMs.
This program includes three components that we are announcing now:
- Broad support for existing vehicle hardware
- Integration and performance tools
- A new SDK
Keep reading for more on each item.
Additionally, we are working with select partners to support remote driving operations at scale. More on this in the coming weeks.