In September 2024, Peachtree Corners eagerly announced their partnership with May Mobility to deploy its autonomous vehicle (AV) solutions in the City of Peachtree Corners. In partnership with Curiosity Lab, T-Mobile, and the City of Peachtree Corners, May Mobility has been offering public rides in its autonomous Toyota Sienna Autono-MaaS (mobility-as-a-service) to visitors of Peachtree Corners’ Curiosity Lab with an attendant in the AVs.
In early February, the city made the exciting announcement that May Mobility had transitioned its vehicles to a driverless service, marking the company’s third deployment without a driver and May Mobility’s first driverless commercial deployment. This was also the first driverless commercial deployment in the state of Georgia.
Brian Johnson, Peachtree Corners City Manager talked more about Peachtree Corners’ autonomous vehicle deployments and the excitement behind May Mobility’s first launch in Georgia. “We have been able to demo, test and deploy multiple autonomous vehicle solutions since we opened in 2019, and we are excited to continue these efforts by welcoming May Mobility to Peachtree Corners and the state of Georgia. As we continue to focus on bringing autonomous mobility options to residents and visitors to better connect them with the community, May Mobility’s solutions provide an on-demand service within our ecosystem, with the goal to slowly expand the route to our Town Center.”
The service zone includes eight pre-determined stops alongside Technology Parkway, and various popular hotels, restaurants, retail shops, office spaces, The City of Peachtree Corners City Hall and The Curiosity Lab Innovation Center. Visitors and residents interested in riding the vehicle, can now download the May Mobility app to access rides in the area. The app will allow users to select their pickup and dropoff locations and hail the vehicle!
May Mobility’s vehicles are equipped with its patented Multi-Policy Decision Making (MPDM) technology that leverages in-situ AI reasoning models to continuously learn and adapt to new, complex and even unpredictable driving conditions to create a safer, more comfortable ride. In doing so, MPDM solves the industry’s biggest challenge, adapting to unexpected, dynamic conditions or “edge cases,” and allows the company to scale quickly and efficiently to new environments.
The vehicle is connected by T-Mobile’s award-winning 5G network, bringing low latency, high-speed connectivity and high bandwidth to vehicle operations and performance. This gives riders a smoother in-cabin experience, while also enabling May Mobility to enhance real-time viewing of the vehicle platform to monitor safety and operations.
Curiosity Lab’s real-world smart city ecosystem has provided May Mobility with a unique environment to both continue to develop and improve their operations over the past six months, which has only further prepared the May Mobility team for its third driver-out operation and first commercial operation in the U.S.
May Mobility’s driverless operations in Peachtree Corners are open to the public Monday through Friday from 9:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., with each vehicle accommodating up to five passengers at a time. Riders can easily book trips to any of the service’s eight stops on-demand through the May Mobility app, powered by transit tech company Via, available in the App Store and Google Play. The app guides users on how to book a ride and access the vehicle, answers questions and more. Make sure you bring family and friends to check this out!
Curiosity Lab is also looking to expand its AV lane along 141 to connect Technology Park and Town Center. You may already see the AV lane signs alongside the roadway.
May Mobility also has plans to launch autonomous vehicles in metro Atlanta in partnership with Lyft later this year. Additional driverless operations in the U.S. will be announced throughout 2025.