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Vay is launching is expanding its teledriving car service, an Uber-like service where your car is driven by someone in a remote location. The company is expanding its fleet of cars and building an 8,500-square-feet production facility in Las Vegas.
You may not have heard about teledriving before, but I was able to try it out at CES 2024 last year. With Vay, you can order a car to come pick you up. A Vay driver sitting in a building with a bunch of screens in front of them will remotely drive the car to you. To spectators, this will look like a self-driving car coming to pick you up. But a human is fully in control of the car — from a distance.
Then you can get in the car and drive it around to where you want to go. When you are done, you hand it back over to the remote driver, who can drive the car to its next destination. If you’re good at racing video games, remote driving might be a good job for you.
It’s a very interesting concept for a new kind of service — one that gives drivers more privacy than a taxi or an Uber. It can be more cost-effective as a per-minute rental service than other ridesharing solutions. And it could be safer than a self-driving car because a human is always in control of the car.
Vay is using Kia Niro EVs.
The company started its pilot service last year and now it is expanding its door-to-door remote driving service in 2025 to 100 vehicles in Las Vegas. Vay has secured a state-of-the-art production facility in Las Vegas to build out its fleet of electric vehicles, which have cameras and sensors attached.
This facility, designed to process up to 16 vehicles per week, will serve as Vay’s primary production and hardware deployment hub for the United States. Vay also has a downtown hub dedicated to …