“Working with DPD is an incredible opportunity to accelerate the collection of peta-byte scale datasets that expand our coverage in more areas of the UK and helps us improve the safety and driving intelligence of our technology.”ĭata collection devices have already been deployed on 50 DPD vans in Greater London. “Real-world driving data is fundamental to building the core capabilities of Wayve's technology and we have built industry-leading expertise in the collection and utilisation of fleet-scale data,” said Alex Kendall, Wayve CEO. The two businesses are exploring how innovations in computer vision and machine learning can be applied to existing fleet and delivery operations to increase the safety of smart urban delivery solutions. Wayve has also been working on a Fleet Data Collection Pilot with delivery company DPD. For example, the areas in Manchester had more pedestrians, bus lanes and traffic lights, whereas the Leeds testing routes had almost four times as many cycle lanes. Wayve selected cities and routes that varied in terms of road layout, road features (such as traffic lights, pedestrian crossings and bus lanes), driving complexity, and traffic density. The trials took place over a three-week period in September 2021 in Cambridge, Coventry, Leeds, Liverpool and Manchester. The goal was to see if its AV2.0 model that was trained in London could generalise its driving intelligence to new cities, without being given data on those destinations. Wayve has taken its self-driving cars on the road and into new UK cities to test how well they perform in cities that they haven’t experienced before.
Wayve is pushing the forefront of machine learning into the world of autonomous vehicles, learning to drive from data and experience. Although several technology companies and vehicle manufacturers have invested billions of dollars into self-driving technology, Wayve focuses more on machine learning, rather than engineering. Wayve’s approach to self-driving cars is different to anything else on the market and that’s why the Virgin Group invested in the company. Wayve, the London-based company pioneering autonomous vehicles, has tested its cars in new cities across the UK.
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