and Europe, has brought its tech to Austin as the company looks to expand in densely-populated cities. The company, which is testing in eight cities in the U.S. "Argo is first to go driverless in two major American cities, safely operating amongst heavy traffic, pedestrians and bicyclists in the busiest of neighborhoods," said Bryan Salesky, Founder and CEO of Argo AI.Įxpect to see the autonomous cars on the road during daytime business hours as the tech aims to learn from a diversity of road infrastructure and driving behaviors.
The Pittsburgh-based company says this progress on its autonomy platform has been more than five years in the making and boasted about reaching this milestone before others. While its platform is designed for integration with multiple vehicle types, the test fleet uses the Ford Escape Hybrid and VW's all-electric ID.Buzz. The company has already made moves on this front in Miami Beach where some Lyft passengers have used its autonomous vehicles with a human operator. Later on, tests with Lyft and Walmart will carry out ride-sharing and grocery delivery services, with the help of a human safety operator. “This is the time for the community to gather together and figure out what everyone can do to help families with young infants.”Īutonomous vehicle tech company Argo AI has brought driverless operations to Austin and Miami, starting out with only company employees using the service. “This is a crisis for families,” Updegrove said. Plant-based, homemade, non-cow's milk or diluting formula may not provide the same nutritional value.Īs the community navigates the shortage, Updegrove said the most important way to help out is to not panic buy or stockpile. Updegrove said it is best to buy types that say “infant formula,” as they are FDA approved and will provide the nutrients, vitamins and minerals a baby needs. While you may still be able to find formula at places like Whole Foods-which currently has goat milk, soy and plant-based formula in stock-Updegrove said it might not be what a baby needs.
Whole Foods downtown was also cleaned out of typical formula. “Every infant needs to be fed, every one of us can relate to that need, and we need to make sure as a community that it happens.” “We and other milk banks are experiencing significant interest from the community-becoming milk donors and helping to turn around this crisis,” Updegrove said. While donors had been on a 30% decline leftover from 2021 when the shortage began, Updegrove said the shortage has led to mass community interest and more than 90 prospective donors in just the past few days. Mothers are only able to donate if they are within a year postpartum, so Updegrove said they are constantly bringing on and retiring donors. So in the past few weeks, those calls have been significantly increasing.” “They're typically very upset, angry, frustrated, sobbing-it's scary to not be able to feed your infants.
“We aren't used to hearing from families with healthy infants,” Updegrove said. The milk bank-which takes donations from lactating mothers and dispenses milk to babies in the NICU-has been helping feed upwards of 30 families in need as the formula supply tightens.Īccording to the bank’s executive director Kim Updegrove, Mother’s Milk Bank has seen an uptick in calls from parents with healthy babies in need of help since the shortage began. HEB on East 7th has been picked clean of formula and is limiting purchases. In the meantime, local parents in crisis have turned toward the Mother’s Milk Bank to keep their babies fed. officials announced a plan with the facility to restart production. Caused mostly by a February recall due to contamination issues, followed by the Abbott Nutrition factory closure in Michigan, the shortage has left Austin shelves barren.