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3 years ago

A mobile app that pays you for driving and other transportation.

495
4 years ago

A tool for coordinating a group’s shopping trip with a single destination by using an app to do the driving.

298
2 years ago

A startup that aims to make driving easier by predicting how long it will take you to get to a destination. It currently has 1,000 users and is funded by a $20 million investment from Blackstone.

240
5 years ago

Digital training for self-driving cars, with courses that teach people how to become better drivers.

239
4 years ago

A self-driving, electric semi truck. The company says they’re trying to “make it a safer, cleaner way to transport goods”.

231
4 years ago

Waze is a software company that builds autonomous driving systems. Waze partners with car manufacturers to produce autonomous driving systems for cars, buses, and trucks.

228
4 years ago

This app is building a vast community of builders. The startup’s goal is to make building fun again, for young people, who are driving the construction industry.

199
4 years ago

This Israeli startup is building a self-driving vehicle that, unlike Uber's autonomous cars, is purely electric and doesn’t need a human driver at the wheel. The company is planning to launch a service in Tel Aviv in July.

189
4 years ago

A data-driven service that estimates the cost of a trip based on emissions, driving it all the way to booking a flight. Their platform works with airlines and car rental companies to help reduce emissions, as well as help people make smarter travel decisions.

188
3 years ago

A startup building a self-driving platform for agricultural applications, from crop and animal management to robot delivery of goods.

181
4 years ago

A startup that makes your car more intelligent. It’s a dashboard to help you monitor your car’s health and make driving safer and more efficient.

179
5 years ago

A smart electric car startup that is working on creating a platform that makes battery charging more efficient, using AI to actually learn from the owner’s driving habits.

171
4 years ago

A self-driving delivery car for food and groceries. The startup is in talks with major food chains to take the software for a spin on the streets.

171
5 years ago

A startup that finds and pays contractors, driving up their pay.

167
4 years ago

In the spirit of the “Uber for X” model, a startup that aims to “turn every car into a self-driving vehicle” for ridesharing services.

167
4 years ago

A self-driving car startup that plans to partner with ride-hailing companies to help get people to where they want to go.

167
4 years ago

A food delivery app that uses a self-driving car as the delivery vehicle.

166
3 years ago

A pitch from a pair of former YC founders, who say they’re using self-driving cars to help Detroit’s homeless.

162
5 years ago

A self-driving car platform for developers and auto manufacturers. The startup wants to make it easy for carmakers to integrate self-driving technology into their vehicles.

159
5 years ago

Delivery service that promises to get an item to you after a certain interval, following a route that minimizes driving, and lets you pick up items from a store.

159
5 years ago

A startup that wants to get a person into the driver’s seat with a new way to track driving behavior using mobile phones. It’s a bit like the sorts of things that Sonar and others are building.

156
4 years ago

This company wants to build a platform that automatically adjusts the rate that your car consumes fuel based on a variety of variables (driving conditions, time of day, weather, etc.)

155
4 years ago

App that helps travelers find and book carpools. The startup is equipped with a whole suite of tools for drivers looking to share the driving costs with others in the car.

154
5 years ago

A startup which wants to build a marketplace for car rentals, with the goal that driving will be more fun and less stressful.

153
5 years ago

A platform for self-driving car manufacturers to build their own maps and run their own fleets

152
5 years ago

Baker, Justine (2017, August 27). "How These Two Women Are Driving the Future of Tech", The New Yorker, .

151
5 years ago

The company operates in a similar fashion to Uber, but instead of driving people around, it takes shoppers to retailers. Shoppers use the app to locate stores and their location, then use the app to walk into shops and purchase items.

148
5 years ago

A tool for getting a lot of attention on social media, especially Twitter. It's basically a social media management app that helps you build a plan for driving lots of followers, likes, retweets, etc.

147
5 years ago

They want to build a self-driving, electric, solar-powered truck that can deliver goods by the hour.

146
5 years ago

Ride-sharing for the elderly. The startup is working on a ride-sharing service for seniors, called Seniorly. The company is also in talks with the US Department of Transportation to develop a pilot program for a level of autonomous driving.

144
5 years ago

This startup is building a chatbot service for driving sales and messaging.

140
4 years ago

A company that provides vehicle and driver safety solutions. The startup helps people find insurance for their cars by matching them to their driving habits.

139
5 years ago

A startup that powers the internet of things by allowing any connected device to be programmable for voice control, whether that be a home security system or a self-driving car.

136
5 years ago

Young startup that’s building a self-driving, electric semi-truck. Traveling 80 miles on one charge, the truck is meant to be used for local deliveries.

136
4 years ago

A self-driving car startup that’s raised a $5.5 million Series A.

136
5 years ago

A consumer-facing platform that enables publishers to curate content for users with the goal of increasing interaction with content and driving more revenue for publishers.

135
5 years ago

This startup’s goal is to help hotels and other hospitality businesses save money by using the same technology that powers self-driving cars to know where their employees are, and be able to send them on a break.

135
5 years ago

A self-driving Uber for trucking companies.

134
5 years ago

A company that wants to make self-driving cars into a commodity product. They want to offer the same experience to driverless cars that people use in cars today.

133
5 years ago

A platform that helps people “find and share the best deals” for everything from gym memberships to long-distance driving.

130
5 years ago

The company has a fleet of self-driving delivery vans that can deliver anything from groceries to dry cleaning to furniture. The startup has 100 drivers in its first city of Los Angeles and plans to expand to other cities in the US and abroad.

129
5 years ago

Saving autonomous mapping startup HERE from bankruptcy. A consortium led by the German car maker and German insurance company has acquired the self-driving mapping software startup, with the group looking to merge HERE’s mapping data with Nokia’s mapping assets and use it to build its own self-driving car platform.

125
5 years ago

A startup focused on getting more people onto their “right-sized” compact cars, with a focus on the East Coast. The startup is focused on targeting Millennials who are interested in driving small cars but don’t want to spend a lot of money.

124
5 years ago

A startup aimed to help people get the best possible deal on their car insurance. The startup’s software analyzes an individual’s driving history and compares it to a carrier’s pricing data to identify the best deal. The startup’s policy is to take a 0.5% commission off the top.

123
5 years ago

A blockchain-based platform for driving and sharing autonomous vehicles, akin to Uber and Lyft but for cars.

121
5 years ago

A startup that wants to use AI to create bespoke, cost-effective car insurance policies based on an agent’s driving history

120
5 years ago

A YC company that makes a mobile app that detects when someone is texting while driving.

116
4 years ago

A “tech startup” which, in their words, “builds and operates a network of high-speed automated parking garages for self-driving vehicles.”

115
5 years ago

A tool for managing a company’s fleet of self-driving cars. The startup is building a system for letting a driver take control of a car during a traffic jam, or for when a driver wants to take a longer break.

114
5 years ago

A personal assistant that can get an email, read it, and then respond with a text message. The service is meant as a companion to aid in the act of driving, for instance.

113
3 years ago

A startup that helps your car know that you’re driving it, and save you money on gas.

112
5 years ago

A platform of the future for self-driving cars, with a marketplace that lets companies sell their services to automakers.

111
4 years ago

This startup is building a platform for location-based mobile advertising aimed at driving in-app purchases and attracting shoppers. The startup is currently focused on shopping malls in the US, but they have plans to expand to other verticals.

111
5 years ago

The company aims to build a digital platform for self-driving vehicles that will allow users to manage their vehicles through a mobile app using a dashboard-like interface.

110
5 years ago

A new content marketing platform that helps businesses create and distribute content quickly, with the goal of driving more leads through its platform.

109
5 years ago

While the idea of a self-driving car might look like far-fetched science fiction, the reality is that the technology is already at work on the roads of the United States and Europe. However, it is still too expensive for consumers to access. The startup, which is still in stealth, is working to make the technology accessible at a consumer level.

105
3 years ago

An insurance company for drivers with good driving records, that offers discount rates for those who pay for dependents up front.

104
5 years ago

An automated, crowdsourced, Wikipedia-like knowledge base for self-driving cars. The startup currently has over 100,000 self-driving car test vehicles in the US and Europe.

100
3 years ago

An AI assistant intended to help drivers find parking spaces, alert them to nearby events, and even do the driving for them.

95
3 years ago

A tool for planning, tracking, and sharing routes. Roozr uses the power of modern smartphones to help track and share the best routes between destinations while minimizing driving time.

92
5 years ago

A startup that allows you to grow a whole portfolio of assets with one purchase, such as a website, business card, email, etc. The startup allows users to mix and match different products to create a single portfolio, while driving down the cost of all of them.

91
4 years ago

A company that sells a system for autonomous vehicles to detect traffic and road hazards. The company is also building a self-driving car platform called Drive.AI

89
4 years ago

A company that helps you find a new or used car based on your driving history or preferred car type.

89
4 years ago

A “machine-learning” startup that builds self-driving cars that can navigate in most environments and drive itself.

87
4 years ago

A self-driving car startup working to redefine the process of buying a car.

87
3 years ago

This startup is building a “self-driving” robotic delivery system that drives around a city and drops off packages at people’s houses

87
4 years ago

A startup that’s building a self-driving, electric vehicle that can charge on the go.

86
3 years ago

A startup that uses a hybrid of geocoded data from social networks and other sources to provide driving directions.

86
3 years ago

This startup is building a self-driving golf cart for the handicapped, with the hopes that it will help people more easily enjoy and play golf. A prototype is tested in a parking lot in San Francisco.

86
2 years ago

This startup wants to turn self-driving cars into a service, allowing users to book a ride in advance so they can go home from the airport, or just get a ride to a nearby restaurant. Uber has a similar service in a few cities.

86
4 years ago

A company that helps people pay for car rentals by tracking their driving habits and charging them for how much they drive each week

82
4 years ago

A platform for self-driving car startups to work with automakers and test their new technologies, and for automakers to do the same for self-driving startups.

82
2 years ago

A startup that lets you rent bikes and self-drive them, building a community around shared rides and use of self-driving vehicles.

82
4 years ago

A self-driving car startup that builds its own hardware, to create a platform for car manufacturers to build autonomous cars.

81
4 years ago

A self-driving car startup that is building an “airport-as-application” for managing travel.

81
4 years ago

A self-driving, electric vehicle startup. The startup is building an autonomous electric vehicle that can be used in public transit. The cars are currently in beta.

80
4 years ago

A self-driving electric bike that can be rented by the hour that launches in Q4 2019.

80
4 years ago

A machine learning platform for self-driving cars

79
3 years ago

A self-driving platform for the automotive industry, the startup claims to allow car manufacturers to build cars that can be steered by a human driver, but that can also navigate on their own in the case of an accident.

77
4 years ago

A startup that wants to bring self-driving delivery and home service robots to your home. It’s a simple 3-step process to get a robot to bring you a clean or cooked meal in under 30 minutes.

76
4 years ago

A startup that’s developing a self-driving electric vehicle for the cost of a $1,000 taxicab. It’s a smart car that communicates via Bluetooth, offers a variety of car-related services, and can be controlled through an app.

75
3 years ago

A tool for collecting data from machines and sending it to a central server. The startup can use it to power self-driving cars, for instance.

75
4 years ago

A food delivery app for the under-served neighborhood in the US where food can be delivered to with a minimum amount of driving.

74
3 years ago

A self-driving platform that helps startups and early stage companies test their autonomous car software. It’s meant to let companies test autonomous car software in simulated environments, with data on how well their cars are handling situations they’d actually encounter.

74
3 years ago

A smart and flexible data platform for self-driving cars. Their proprietary technology and algorithms enable cars to understand the world around them. Through a combination of sensors, machine learning, and computer vision, the platform provides a level of situational awareness that’s currently only available to humans.

74
3 years ago

A startup building a software toolkit for self-driving cars, meant to make it easier for companies to develop autonomous vehicle apps.

74
4 years ago

The startup is building a platform for the gig economy, letting people earn money through online activities, like cleaning homes, or driving Uber. It’s currently focusing on Indonesia.

73
4 years ago

A new way to get you to your appointments and in the right place at the right time, powered by self-driving cars.

73
4 years ago

The startup is building a chat app aimed at social media influencers, driving better engagement on their social media channels.

72
4 years ago

A free software application allowing people to build miniature, self-driving robots.

72
3 years ago

A startup that uses crowdsourcing to crowdsource grassroots marketing campaigns, driving social media engagement and word of mouth to drive sales.

71
4 years ago

A startup that’s creating a digital concierge service for everyday tasks. The company hopes to expand into household services, driving their business model with the same $1 per month fee they charge for their concierge service.

69
3 years ago

A company that has created a new type of self-driving car that is designed to be used in crowded areas, mainly at malls and retail stores.

68
4 years ago

A company that will replace existing safety tools for self-driving cars, including collision avoidance systems, with a dashboard that overlays cameras, radar, lidar, and other sensors.

66
4 years ago

The startup's founders have been driving customer growth for companies like Lyft, Instacart, and Delivery Hero. After the US, they're going global and they're looking to build a customer service app called Enter, which they say can help companies grow faster by building and managing customer relationships.

65
4 years ago

A company that’s building a platform for a self-driving car company. It’s currently working on a $13 million round of financing to build a platform that allows self-driving car companies to more easily test their autonomous software.

65
3 years ago

A platform that helps small businesses manage a fleet of deliveries using self-driving delivery vans

64
3 years ago

A Boston-based startup building an iPhone app that will enable users to record their driving/riding behavior and then analyze it to help them make better decisions

64
3 years ago

A company building a self-driving car that can be safely driven by an amateur and can be taught by an experienced driver.

64
2 years ago

A crowdfunded project for a custom, self-driving electric skateboard

64
3 years ago

A startup that builds hardware for self-driving vehicles, with an app that helps teach other people how to code for self-driving vehicles.

62
2 years ago

In India’s most populous state, where the app is aimed, roughly 20,000 people die due to traffic accidents every year. It uses a combination of artificial intelligence and human intervention to monitor traffic conditions and send alerts to cars of bad driving, as well as send out a text that includes the name of the driver and a link to a video recorded by a camera attached to the car’s dashboard.

61
2 years ago

A self-driving delivery robot that can be rented for deliveries.

60
3 years ago

Skoolie is a software platform that lets you create, manage, and use a network of student-run vehicles. The startup lets parents create a fleet of cars and manage them via a cloud-based app. Parents can also help their students learn the importance of driving, and earn a little money on the side.

59
3 years ago

A company that helps nuclear power plants introduce self-driving cars to their facilities, with the goal of saving money and reducing carbon emissions.

59
2 years ago

A company that plans a self-driving electric car for the masses, building on a platform launched by the Chinese auto giant Chery.

59
2 years ago

A startup that helps people find their nearest retail location, so they can avoid the hassle of driving to a different store.

59
4 years ago

A web-based platform for managing a fleet of self-driving vehicles, integrating with all the major systems including Waymo, Uber, and Tesla. The startup’s platform is built on the open source OBD2 standard and uses the same kinds of sensors as Tesla's Autopilot.

58
4 years ago

A platform for self-driving resource allocation, allowing the company to find and allocate the right resources to the right things.

58
3 years ago

Google’s self-driving cars aren’t ready for the public yet, but that hasn’t stopped some people from building their own. The startup, which is based in San Francisco, is helping others build their own self-driving car kits in the hopes of creating a viable alternative to the Google car.

57
3 years ago

A self-driving construction vehicle that can detect objects and avoid them, and has the ability to drive in reverse.

56
2 years ago

The average American spends $40,000 annually on their car, and this startup wants to help people save that money with self-driving cars, made possible by a partnership with Uber.

55
3 years ago

The goal is to improve the educational experience for self-driving car engineers by replacing the monotonous work of copying and pasting data into a spreadsheet with the more creative task of creating a 3D model.

54
3 years ago

This startup is building a “mobile app for cars that actually gets safer”, offering a sensor and driver monitoring platform that can warn drivers of things like speed limits and drunk driving.

53
3 years ago

A platform that uses machine learning to find U.S. jobs that are in high demand, like software engineering and truck driving.

51
3 years ago

A self-driving electric bike company that produces a line of electric bikes that fold up into a bag and can be used as a bike-share system.

50
3 years ago

A startup based in Brazil that says it's building a “self-driving” platform for online dating.

50
2 years ago

A business that turns any car into an autonomous vehicle. The startup wants to use a combination of sensors to create a “self-driving car for the masses.” It’s been through YC twice, and says it has a working prototype with a working business plan.

50
3 years ago

This startup helps businesses sell more stuff online by helping shoppers buy online, then driving them to a physical store.

49
3 years ago

A self-driving valuation platform that uses machine learning to set a valuation on a company before it even launches, using a “simple formula” to estimate a company’s potential.

49
3 years ago

A self-driving car platform that can also deploy human drivers in a car, with a pilot program in London’s Greenwich district.

49
3 years ago

This startup is building a solution for managing their fleet of self-driving cars. Right now the company has tested their own fleet of self-driving cars in SF and other cities and will soon launch in SF to test their product on the streets.

46
2 years ago

A “self-driving, affordable, solar-powered, all-electric delivery van” for food deliveries.

45
2 years ago

A self-driving electric vehicle startup.

42
2 years ago

A company that’s building an open source self-driving platform. The platform is designed to be modular, so that it’s easy for developers to build different self-driving solutions around it.

40
2 years ago

A company that makes self-driving car simulations that allow software to “drive” the vehicle in the same way virtual reality simulators can help a pilot learn to fly.

39
2 years ago

A semi-truck delivery service that wants to replace the human driver with self-driving vehicles

39
2 years ago

A company that “builds self-driving vehicles for the masses”, buying up concepts from the likes of Tesla and Ford.

38
2 years ago

This startup is trying to fix the broken foundation of the automobile industry by building an autonomous driving platform to help other automakers build better cars.

37
2 years ago

This startup is building a “self-driving” elevator system, which is designed to transport people from the first floor to the second floor of any building.

37
2 years ago

An AI-driven marketplace that uses machine-learning to help users find the best price for a home, driving down seller costs and increasing buyer flexibility.

36
2 years ago

 A connected and self-driving vehicle platform that automates vehicle routing, including ride sharing, self-driving, and vehicle monitoring.

35
2 years ago

A tool that helps people get paid for things they do while traveling like driving for Uber or Lyft.

33
2 years ago

A group of engineers at Google, Amazon, and Microsoft who are building a new operating system for self-driving cars.

32
2 years ago

The startup has created an app that displays real-time data about traffic congestion in the city you’re driving in. The data is gathered from over 1,000 sensors and aggregated on a map.

31
2 years ago

A “self-driving” system that helps people drink more water. A startup that wants to make water more accessible to people in the developing world. A startup that wants to make water more accessible to people in the developing world.

31
2 years ago

Startup that puts a portable, battery powered, slanted mirror in the driver's seat to allow drivers to check their makeup and hair while driving.

31
2 years ago

A startup that wants to make the self-driving vehicle market more efficient, including by building a platform that reduces the amount of time it takes to deploy new self-driving cars.

30
2 years ago

A company that offers a “self-driving” app that generates a report of how many steps you’ve taken and how many calories you’ve burned

29
2 years ago

A startup that wants to make “drunk texting” a thing of the past by letting people text while driving.

29
2 years ago

This startup wants to build an open-source car that operates without the driver. The goal is to make the car autonomous so you can be productive in the car by doing work while driving.

29
2 years ago

This startup is building a self-driving car platform for delivery. The company is among the first to get access to autonomous testing zones in Arizona, and hopes to use this to get into the ride-hailing business.

27
2 years ago

A self-driving bus that can run on public sidewalks. The startup wants to use the bus to help expand public transportation and reduce traffic congestion.

23
2 years ago

Helping companies get reimbursed for time spent on phone calls while driving.

23
2 years ago

MetroC has a vision of creating a low cost, self-driving, hyper-connected bus service that can be used by commuters and ride-sharing companies.

23
2 years ago

A “mobile-first” venture that seeks to bring the next wave of car companies to the US with a startup they call the “Tesla of the auto industry.” They’re building a self-driving, electric, and fully autonomous vehicle that can be sold to people at a rate they can afford.

22
2 years ago

A self-driving car company with the goal of creating an autonomous vehicle that can be driven by a person.

22
2 years ago

A company building a CDE for self-driving cars, which is designed to interact with the car’s computer systems, including sensors, to control the car.

21
2 years ago

A self-driving electric vehicle platform that connects cars to telematics systems.

19
2 years ago

The startup says they’re building a tool that allows marketers to see which of their social media platforms are driving the most action.

19
2 years ago

A self-driving, electric, all-terrain vehicle, meant to get people around cities and rural areas.

19
2 years ago

A small service that will help people avoid the hassle of driving to the grocery store for their weekly shopping.

14
2 years ago

 A text-to-speech app that reads out notifications in your background so you can still see your phone while driving or sleeping.

14
2 years ago

With the advent of self-driving cars, there will be a lot of new data that’s generated by the cars. The startup believes that it can use that data to predict accidents.

13
2 years ago

The startup is looking to build a better way for bus drivers to stay safe by alerting them when there is a dangerous situation while driving.

12
5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where people can hire someone to help them get their driver’s license (maybe they’re from out of state and don’t have one, or maybe they’ve had problems with bad driving and need help getting

9
2 years ago

Built by a group of UCLA Ph.D. students, noXplore is a self-driving car that can be driven by a human driver, who can take the wheel for short periods of time. The company is pitching itself to advertisers who want to run test ads on real public streets but can’t afford a full-scale fleet of cars.

9
5 years ago

Idea: A “self-driving” AI-based assistant that helps companies identify and solve problems within their manufacturing processes.

8
5 years ago

Idea: A self-driving car company that aims to give its vehicles to auto manufacturers for use in fleet operations and shuttle services

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5 years ago

Idea: An In-Car Companion App for Self-Driving Cars

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