Beep has partnered with autonomous vehicle software developer Oxa to upgrade these vehicles with Oxa Driver, Oxa’s software that enables safe and energy-efficient self-driving of any vehicle type in any environment. Oxa Driver combines sensor data from cameras, lidar and radar, enabling it to gain a more comprehensive view of the world around it than vehicles that rely on cameras alone.

This fused sensor technology is the first-of-its-kind deployed in a passenger shuttle in the U.S. The software uses AI to accurately sense and predict changes to the vehicle’s environment while learning from previous journeys, which is key to improving the capability of the technology over time.