Start-up Halo is ready to go debut in the United States a car-sharing service with driverless car remotely controlled by human drivers: it will be possible to remotely drive the cars, all electric and connected, thanks to the 5G technology provided by the telecommunications giant T-Mobile. Halo, which led testing in Las Vegas since February, plans to start offering rides to customers later this year. Like other car-sharing services, it will be possible to book a car via the app: the delivery of the vehicle takes place in a designated place, where the customer waits.
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The peculiarity of the Halo service is that the car is remotely driven by a human operator to the defined point. After that, the customer will take command of the car for the duration of his trip. And on arrival there is no need to park, because once the race is over, the driver of the company resumes again, always remote control of the vehicle, directing it to the next destination and to the person who made a new request through the application.
Halo, in this respect, yes differentiate greatly from start-ups like Waymo, Zoox or Cruise, working on autonomous driving technology based entirely on artificial intelligence without human driver.
The Las Vegas company, on the other hand, take advantage of T-Mobile’s 5G network to allow drivers to operate electric cars remotely: equipped with cameras and sensors, the cars return images of the route on a screen available to drivers who, using a special system (called RemotePilot), equipped with steering wheel and pedals, are able to perform driving maneuvers.
Halo has also developed a mechanism for automatic stop of cars in case of danger for safety: it is called Advanced Safe Stop.
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The goal of the start-up headed by Anand Nandakumar is to gain the trust of those who use the service without forging ahead. Self-driving cars still raise concerns among consumers and fully autonomous driving is not easy to achieve: it requires a powerful and reliable 5G network and presents more problems than expected, as he admitted himself Elon Musk, Tesla’s number one and pioneer of innovation in the industry.
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