Episode 255 | 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

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