Overview
- CEO Laura Major said Motional has shifted from a classic modular AV stack to a foundation‑model, end‑to‑end architecture using transformer‑based large driving models and vision‑language‑action systems.
- The company is running employee and public pilots with safety drivers and plans a public rollout with a ride‑hailing partner later in 2026 before removing in‑vehicle safety operators by year’s end in Las Vegas.
- Motional reports more than 130,000 public rides and over 2 million autonomous miles without an at‑fault incident, figures the company attributes to its safety approach.
- The current fleet numbers about 109 vehicles, with 50–65 robotaxis operating daily across two shifts and centralized monitoring at its Las Vegas technical center.
- Its Ioniq 5 robotaxis use 29 sensors — 13 cameras, 11 radars, and five LiDARs — as the company positions multimodal sensing and cost optimization as advantages in a crowded robotaxi field.