May Mobility · self-driving bus or shuttle
Autonomous shuttle on Polaris GEM e6
Six-seat Polaris GEM electric carts fitted with May Mobility's self-driving kit, running fixed loops with a safety operator. The company now uses Toyota Sienna minivans instead.
- Price
- —Price not published
- Autonomy
- SupervisedHow it runs
- Driverless
- Not yetSafety driver on board
- Fleet
- 4Reported; details below
- Speed
- 40.0 km/hFaster than 38%
- Range
- —Not published
Why it matters
May Mobility's first commercial shuttle service, linking parking garages and offices in downtown Detroit.
Real-world use
Ran in Detroit from June 2018 for Bedrock and Quicken Loans staff and in Grand Rapids from July 2019 until the service switched to Lexus RX 450h vehicles in July 2021.
Maker
May MobilityCompanyHow it drives
Fleet and city figures move fast; each carries its date and who reported it.
- Driverless status
- Safety driver on board
- Where it runs
- Detroit (2018), Grand Rapids (2019-2021)
- Fleet
- 4 GEM shuttles plus 1 wheelchair-accessible vehicle in Grand Rapids (May Mobility)
- Rides, miles or loads
- About 10,000 passengers in the first 75 days in Detroit (press reports, 2018)
How it stacks up
Against other buses & shuttles that publish the figure. Pick a measure.
Autonomous shuttle on Polaris GEM e6 is faster than 38% of the 13 other buses & shuttles that publish a speed. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Not published by the maker: height, weight, payload, joints, battery, price.
Public attention
A historic robot: no longer sold or in use, so it is not ranked against current vehicles.
- No Wikipedia article of its own yet
- No recent press stories listed yet
Measures how much people read and write about a robot, not how good it is. Measured 2026-10-14; same method for every robot. How it is measured
What’s inside
No component details published yet.
- Movement
- Wheeled base
- How it runs
- Supervised. Works by itself while a person watches and steps in.
Lineage
Every May Mobility vehicle in order.
Made, sold and where
No production or sales figures published yet.
- Price
- Not publishedPrice not published
- How to get one
- No official buying page found
Side by side with its peers
Picked by the same rules for every robot: another maker’s robot that moves the same way, is at the same stage and does at least one of the same main jobs, first shown within two years. Closer size and price rank higher. How we choose
| Measure | Autonomous shuttle on Polaris GEM e6May Mobility |  EZ10 Gen 2EasyMileSame job: passenger shuttle · Both on wheels · Both past robots |  HEAT shuttle (Hamburg Electric Autonomous Transportation)IAVSame job: passenger shuttle · Both on wheels · Both past robots |  Olli 2.0Local MotorsSame job: passenger shuttle · Both on wheels · Both past robots |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First shown | 2018-06 | 2018 | 2019-07-31 | 2019-09 |
| Status | Retired | Discontinued | Retired | Discontinued |
| Height | — | — | — | — |
| Weight | — | — | — | — |
| Joints | — | — | — | — |
| Speed | 40 km/h | — | 25 km/h | 40 km/h |
| Payload | — | — | — | — |
| Battery | — | — | — | — |
| Price | — | — | — | — |
Sources
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