Stellantis and Wayve Partner to Bring Hands-Free Door-to-Door Supervised Automated Driving by 2028
Stellantis plans to integrate Wayve's AI Driver into its STLA AutoDrive platform to deliver hands-free Level 2++ driving in urban and highway environments, with first vehicle integration in North America targeted for 20…
- 2028
- Level 2++
- North America
- < 2 months
What Happened
Stellantis and Wayve announced a strategic technology partnership to integrate Wayve's AI Driver into Stellantis' STLA AutoDrive platform. The initial product will be hands-free, door-to-door supervised automated driving (Level 2++) on highways and in cities, with a pathway to higher automation levels. The first vehicle integration is planned for North America in 2028.
“Combining our STLA AutoDrive platform with Wayve's groundbreaking AI-first approach creates a genuinely intuitive and enjoyable hands-free driving experience. This collaboration is a testament to how the right partnerships allow us to scale advanced technology globally while anchoring customer safety and experience at the center.”
“Our teams have already demonstrated how quickly the Wayve AI Driver can be integrated across Stellantis' vehicle platforms, bringing up a prototype in less than 2 months. By combining Wayve's AI with Stellantis' engineering expertise, scale, and global reach, we're accelerating our mission to bring autonomy to any vehicle, anywhere.”
STLA AutoDrive provides a common, scalable foundation for deploying advanced driving assistance across Stellantis' portfolio of brands. Wayve's end-to-end AI approach is designed to generalize across geographies and vehicle types, enabling faster deployment, continuous improvement through real-world data, and efficient scaling. The technology aims to deliver human-like driving behavior that continuously learns.
< 2 months
Wayve AI Driver integrated into Stellantis vehicle platforms in under two months, demonstrating rapid deployment capability.
Why this matters
This partnership combines Stellantis' manufacturing scale with Wayve's end-to-end AI approach to bring affordable supervised automated driving to millions of customers. The flexible architecture is designed to evolve toward higher levels of automation over time, potentially reshaping the driver-assistance market. For customers, this means a more natural and intuitive hands-free driving experience that improves through real-world learning.
Terms in This Story
- Level 2++
- An advanced driver-assistance system where the vehicle can control steering and acceleration/deceleration under driver supervision, but the driver must remain attentive and ready to take over.
- STLA AutoDrive
- Stellantis' common platform for advanced driver-assistance and automated driving features, designed to scale across its vehicle brands.
- End-to-end AI
- An artificial intelligence approach where a single neural network processes raw sensor data directly to generate driving commands, without hand-coded rules.
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