Four months after announcing plans to bring its rental EV delivery service over from Europe to the US, Vay has hired its first teledriver – the first of many who will soon be remotely operating EVs throughout the country without a human physically present.
Vay is a German teledriving rideshare company originally based in Berlin that has taken a remote-first approach to driverless vehicles in which an operator drives one of the EVs in the fleet from a dedicated hub.
Although Vay is working to gradually introduce more autonomous driving functions in its system as they become permitted to do so, its service currently relies on teledrivers, whose focus is the driverless delivery of rental EVs to customers. Those customers can then hop in the EV, drive off, and park whenever they are done, enabling Vay to step back in and remotely drive the vehicle back…