In February 2023, Vay was the first (and is still the only) company in Europe to drive on public roads without a person in the vehicle.
In January 2024, Vay launched its first commercial mobility service in Las Vegas, USA.
In addition, Vay is building an extensive network of automotive OEMs and commercial partners worldwide to bring the benefits of teledriving to personally owned cars, logistics, car share and rental, and public transport.
Vay’s team of 150+ people combines the best of two worlds—software and product experience from Silicon Valley and automotive hardware and safety engineering from Europe. The company has offices in Berlin and Hamburg, Germany, and Las Vegas, USA.
Vay raised a USD 95m Series B funding round. Investors include Kinnevik, Coatue, Eurazeo, Atomico, La Famiglia, and Creandum, as well as prominent business angels such as former Alphabet Chief Financial Officer Patrick Pichette, former member of the Management Board for R&D, Design, CTO of Audi Peter Mertens and Spotify’s Chief Technology & Chief Product Officer Gustav Söderström.
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What is Vay?
In 2023, Vay became the first company to drive a car with no one inside on a public road in Europe and the US. Vay achieved this by remotely driving (teledriving) cars. Vay aims to launch a safe, affordable, and sustainable door-to-door mobility service in the US, Germany, and beyond. Vay plans to remotely deliver and return electric cars for its customers to create more liveable cities worldwide.
We are pursuing a gradual introduction of autonomous driving. Starting with the simplest functions, e.g., on highways or at low speeds, we intend to gradually incorporate autonomous functiyons into our system as soon as this is safe and legally permissible.
How does the service work?
Users order an electric vehicle via the Vay app and the teledriver brings the car to the user—remotely driven from the teledrive center. The user then jumps into the car and drives themself to the destination. Once there, a teledriver drives the car to the next user or parks it. No time spent picking up a car or trying to find parking.
What is teledriving?
Vay’s technology enables remote driving (teledriving). Professionally trained remote drivers (teledrivers) sit at a teledrive station with a steering wheel, pedals and other vehicle controls developed to meet automotive industry standards. The car surroundings are reproduced via camera sensors and transmitted to the screens of the teledrive station. Road traffic sounds, such as emergency vehicles and other warning signals, are transmitted via microphones to the teledriver’s headphones.