Auve Tech’s Driverless Shuttle Playbook for Airports and Beyond | Taavi Rõivas
Robotaxis get the billions. But driverless shuttles on airports and private campuses may scale first, because the owner of the ground can say yes before the law changes.
Taavi Rõivas was Prime Minister of Estonia. Today he chairs Auve Tech, a Tallinn company that designs its own eight-seat shuttle, MiCa, and its own self-driving software. Its shuttles run in small Japanese towns, in West Palm Beach and Abu Dhabi, and on the airside of Tallinn Airport with nobody on board.
First, the bet. Daniel Abreu Marques asks why Auve Tech chose low-speed shuttles when most of the money chased robotaxis…
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