Stellantis Partners with Wayve for Hands-Free Automated Driving by 2028
Stellantis and Wayve will integrate AI-powered automated driving into STLA AutoDrive, offering hands-free Level 2++ driving on highways and in cities by 2028.
- 2028
- less than 2 months
What Happened
Stellantis and Wayve have entered a strategic technology partnership to integrate Wayve's AI Driver into Stellantis' STLA AutoDrive platform. The initial product will enable hands-free, door-to-door supervised automated driving at Level 2++, covering both highway and urban environments. The service is targeted to launch in 2028, starting in North America, with a scalable AI architecture designed to expand across vehicle platforms and markets over time.
“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.”
Wayve's end-to-end AI approach is designed to generalize across geographies and vehicle types, enabling faster deployment and continuous improvement through real-world data. Early development on Stellantis vehicles has already started, with a prototype integrated in less than two months, demonstrating rapid integration and promising performance.
less than 2 months
Wayve AI Driver integrated into Stellantis vehicle platform
Why this matters
This partnership aims to bring affordable, scalable supervised automated driving to millions of Stellantis vehicles, starting in North America, building a foundation for future full autonomy.
Terms in This Story
- Level 2++
- A level of partial driving automation where the vehicle can control steering and acceleration/deceleration in specific conditions, but the driver must supervise and is not required to keep hands on the wheel.
- STLA AutoDrive
- Stellantis' common platform for advanced driver assistance systems, designed to be scalable across different vehicle models and brands.
- Embodied AI
- Artificial intelligence that interacts with the physical world, enabling machines to perceive, understand, and navigate real environments.
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