Night-time operations are essential for robotaxis’ future

At the end of 2022, a perceived lack of progress resulted in the ROI of some autonomous vehicle (AV) projects being called into question, and even, in the case of Argo AI, liquidated. In the aftermath, AV developers such as Gatik and Oxbotica opined that money channelled into experimental robotaxi projects would be better spent on more immediately realisable logistics use cases instead.