{"id":40503,"date":"2023-01-16T11:46:39","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T16:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=40503"},"modified":"2023-01-16T11:46:39","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T16:46:39","slug":"we-tested-halo-cars-remote-piloted-carshare-program-which-just-launched-in-las-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=40503","title":{"rendered":"We tested Halo.Car’s remote piloted carshare program, which just launched in Las Vegas"},"content":{"rendered":"
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During my time at CES in Las Vegas, I got the chance to visit the local HQ of Halo.Car \u2013 an EV mobility solutions provider that specializes in rental cars that are dropped off and picked up using remote pilots. Company founder and CEO Anand Nandakumar personally showed me around and explained how Halo.Car\u2019s remote piloted technology looks to bridge the gap between car sharing<\/a>, autonomous driving, and quicker EV adoption.<\/p>\n

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Halo.Car is a relatively young startup focused on much of the same segments or nascent technologies that others are, but is approaching them with a different solution. Rather than develop yet another carshare program that requires designated parking areas or customers to pick up and return their rented vehicle somewhere, Halo.Car will drop off and pick up the vehicle wherever you are.<\/p>\n

Since viable autonomous driving technology continues to perpetually feel two years away (10 if you ask the Halo.Car team), the company has adopted a different strategy that uses remote drivers at its HQ who are authorized to operate the vehicles using video and sensor data streamed from proprietary software and hardware retrofitted onto the company\u2019s fleet of Kia Niro EVs.<\/p>\n

This process will eventually enable a remote pilot to drive your rental car to you in Las Vegas and unlock it allowing you to enter, take over control, and drive away. You can then rent the EV for an hour, a day, or weeks at a time. Simply decide when you\u2019re done, exit the vehicle and it will drive off.<\/p>\n

This process is partially underway in the streets of Vegas, but with several failsafes in place to ensure the safety of everyone inside and outside of a given Halo.Car EV. Nandakumar walked me through Halo.Car\u2019s four phases to reach the future of mobility, then we went out for a ride of our own as you\u2019ll see below:<\/p>\n

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We see the four-step process being important to launching the first city while gaining considerable learnings from it. It\u2019s an act of balancing risk management with speed and revenue.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Watch a Halo.Car EV pick us up and pilot us back to HQ<\/h2>\n

As previously mentioned, Halo.Car fully intends to one day deliver remotely piloted EVs to customers, but in order to remain safe to start, there were a couple failsafes in place. For instance, we had a chase car behind us with a human driver, and a passenger in their front seat holding a kill switch for our EV in case anything went wrong (it didn\u2019t).<\/p>\n

Secondly, we had a human in the driver\u2019s seat of our remotely operated Kia Niro, who was simply there to step in if needed. As you\u2019ll see in the videos below, that was not the case for our visit, but Halo.Car hasn\u2019t been operating on roads in Las Vegas too long, so it\u2019s understandable that they are making passenger and pedestrian safety the number-one priority.<\/p>\n

To begin, we rode in the chase car and watched a separate EV depart from Halo.Car HQ without anyone present in the vehicle. I\u2019m sure one day we will all become accustomed to this sight, but it\u2019s still pretty surreal to not see a driver, at least for myself.<\/p>\n

The current Halo.Car fleet is about 15 Kia Niro EVs, but the company is already planning to ramp up, dspecially now that its carshare service is up and running in Las Vegas. If you happen to be in Las Vegas, you can test out Halo.Car yourself by booking your appointment here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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