{"id":20197,"date":"2025-09-25T04:37:46","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T02:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/25\/oi-vay-the-german-remote-driving-company-that-hopes-to-make-private-car-ownership-redundant\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T04:37:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T02:37:46","slug":"oi-vay-the-german-remote-driving-company-that-hopes-to-make-private-car-ownership-redundant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/25\/oi-vay-the-german-remote-driving-company-that-hopes-to-make-private-car-ownership-redundant\/","title":{"rendered":"Oi Vay: the German remote-driving company that hopes to make private car ownership redundant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Europe has been slow to embrace robotaxis but Germany will allow remote-controlled rental cars from December<\/p>\n<p>Having been summoned by a few clicks in an app, the electric car slows to a halt outside the former cargo hall of Berlin\u2019s now defunct Tegel airport. No one is at the wheel, but upon a passenger stepping inside, a voice announces: \u201cThis is Bartek, I am your driver today. Please buckle up and we can be on our way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The car emits a friendly jingle, then makes its way to the former runway, where it performs a fault-free manoeuvre around a route marked by traffic cones.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/25\/raring-to-go-the-german-remote-driving-firm-that-hopes-to-make-private-car-ownership-redundant\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/505936010680de2df923963c77d8742a265cf963\/630_0_6352_5080\/master\/6352.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=876edcd7de72a8dd6341f8d1924ce4dc\" title=\"Oi Vay: the German remote-driving company that hopes to make private car ownership redundant\" \/>Europe has been slow to embrace robotaxis but Germany will allow remote-controlled rental cars from December<br \/>\nHaving been summoned by a few clicks in an app, the electric car slows to a halt outside the former cargo hall of Berlin\u2019s now defunct Tegel airport. No one is at the wheel, but upon a passenger stepping inside, a voice announces: \u201cThis is Bartek, I am your driver today. Please buckle up and we can be on our way.\u201d<br \/>\nThe car emits a friendly jingle, then makes its way to the former runway, where it performs a fault-free manoeuvre around a route marked by traffic cones. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Europe has been slow to embrace robotaxis but Germany will allow remote-controlled rental cars from December Having been summoned by a few clicks in an app, the electric car slows to a halt outside the former cargo hall of Berlin\u2019s now defunct Tegel airport. No one is at the wheel, but upon a passenger stepping &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/25\/oi-vay-the-german-remote-driving-company-that-hopes-to-make-private-car-ownership-redundant\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Oi Vay: the German remote-driving company that hopes to make private car ownership redundant<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20198,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20197"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}