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Mobileye Is Entering the US Robotaxi Market with Standalone Service
- On Tuesday, Mobileye Global announced plans to launch a robotaxi service in a U.S. city in 2027, starting with an initial fleet of around 100 autonomous vehicles phased throughout that year.
- For 25 years, Mobileye has functioned as an "arms dealer" for self-driving technology, but CEO Amnon Shashua now aims to operate robotaxis directly to accelerate adoption and demonstrate platform capabilities at scale.
- Mobileye intends to scale to about 17,000 robotaxis over five years, leveraging its transit app Moovit—which reaches 1.7 billion users across more than 3,500 cities—for fleet operations.
- The strategy puts Mobileye in direct competition with its own customers, though the company claims the move is a "complementary path to market," and investors responded by pushing shares up about 6 per cent.
- Competition with established players like Waymo remains a challenge, as Mobileye must prove its late-entry service can succeed before sharing operational details at a Capital Markets Day before the end of 2026.
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Mobileye will cease to be only a technology provider to launch its own robotaxis service in the United States from 2027
Mobileye to launch its own US robotaxi service in 2027
For 25 years, Mobileye has been the arms dealer of self-driving, selling the cameras, chips, and software that now sit inside more than 230 million cars, while pointedly leaving the driving business to everyone else. On 16 June, it said it would start doing the driving itself. The Jerusalem company announced plans to launch its […] This story continues at The Next Web
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