May Mobility: Scaling Autonomous Vehicles in Japan with NTT and Toyota
Edwin Olson, Co-Founder & CEO, May Mobility joined Grayson Brulte on The Road to Autonomy podcast to discuss May Mobility’s strategic expansion into Japan through partnerships with Toyota and NTT and their plans to launch with Lyft in Atlanta in 2025.
May Mobility is focused on creating scalable, low-power autonomous vehicles that are profitable. One of the keys to May Mobility’s success so far has been their multi-policy decision making (MPDM) system that runs on the edge, primarily with CPUs instead of GPUs, requiring less compute power.
Recorded on Tuesday, December 10, 2024
Episode Chapters
- 0:00 May Mobility in Japan
- 3:11 May Mobility’s Approach to Autonomous Driving
- 7:23 Autonomous Driving Models (LLMs)
- 10:56 On-board Compute
- 14:23 Multi-Policy Decision Making (MPDM)
- 20:46 Japan Deployments
- 24:25 Simulation
- 26:16 MPDM on the Edge
- 29:12 Scaling May Mobility
- 34:57 Passenger Experience
- 42:24 Atlanta Expansion / Lyft Partnership
- 48:50 Freeways
- 52:33 Future of May Mobility
