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Autonomy, on real roads since 2016

In 2016 REKA built Malaysia’s first self-driving car, the first in Southeast Asia on public highways, and drove it from Melaka to Kuala Lumpur on the PLUS Highway, on our own hardware and autonomy stack. Today we start where autonomy already works and pays: yards, ports, farms and fixed routes.

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REKA archive. Actual people around the REKA test vehicle at Malaysia Autoshow 2023, a distinct capture from all photographs already allocated.

How we pursue autonomy

Not waiting for Level 5. We bound the world the machine operates in, prove it inside that boundary, then widen it.

  1. Bound the domain

    We start where autonomy already works and pays: yards, ports, farms, fixed routes.

  2. Prove it inside

    The machine earns trust inside that boundary, and hands over cleanly at its edge to a person who is always one step away.

  3. Widen it

    Each domain solved is a piece of infrastructure redesigned, and the start of the next one.

How we pursue autonomy: bound the domain, prove it inside, widen it Rings, from the inside out. Bound the domain: we start where autonomy already works and pays, in yards, ports, farms and fixed routes. Prove it inside: the machine earns trust inside that boundary, and hands over cleanly at its edge to a person who is always one step away. Widen it: each domain solved is the start of the next one. Outermost and faint: not waiting for Level 5. Not waiting for Level 5. Widen itthe start of the next one Bound the domainyards · ports · farms · fixed routes Prove it inside Human in the loopalways one step away How we pursue autonomy: bound the domain, prove it inside, widen it Rings, from the inside out. Bound the domain: we start where autonomy already works and pays, in yards, ports, farms and fixed routes. Prove it inside: the machine earns trust inside that boundary, and hands over cleanly at its edge to a person who is always one step away. Widen it: each domain solved is the start of the next one. Outermost and faint: not waiting for Level 5. Not waiting for Level 5. Widen itthe start of the next one Bound the domainyards · ports · farms ·fixed routes Prove it inside Human in the loopalways one step away

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How we pursue autonomy. Rings are illustrative.
  • Open stack

    We build on Autoware, auditable and inspectable. Every layer of our stack can be opened, examined and replaced.

  • Human in the loop

    Teleoperation is a designed layer, not a failure mode.

  1. 2016

    Malaysia’s first self-driving car on open roads, Melaka to Kuala Lumpur on the PLUS Highway

  2. 2017

    Members of the public ride in it at the Malaysia Autoshow, with MARii

  3. 2021

    We start building on the open-source Autoware stack

  4. 2023

    An autonomous test bed at the Malaysia Autoshow, after test runs on a dedicated route in Cyberjaya

  5. 2024

    REKA joins the Autoware Foundation

2016: Malaysia’s first self-driving car on open roads

Project CRETA: a retrofit kit for an ordinary car. MK I, a Proton Waja, saw the road through one webcam, with motors, servos and REKA’s own electronics, including its RIG board, on the wheel and pedals. By the end of 2016 it drove from Melaka to Kuala Lumpur with no one in the driver’s seat. MK II (mid-2017), a Proton Inspira courtesy of MIDA, added a puck LiDAR; MK III (late 2017), two Proton Perdanas from NanoMalaysia and MARA, carried LiDAR, side radars and three cameras each.

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REKA archive photograph. Actual Malaysia Autoshow 2017 CRETA vehicle-and-people archive, EXIF 13 November 2017. Contextual archive alternative beside the 2016 origin story, not the highway voyage and not a 2016 photograph.CRETA archive · Malaysia Autoshow 2017

The public takes a ride

At the Malaysia Autoshow 2017, with MARii, members of the public rode in our self-driving car. In 2023 we showed an autonomous test bed at the Malaysia Autoshow, after test runs on a dedicated route in Cyberjaya.

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REKA’s booth at the Malaysia Autoshow 2017

Every vehicle in view, and within reach

Motion is telematics and fleet management, built first for autonomous vehicles and remote control, carrying forward the work REKA began with its 2016 self-driving car. A closed pilot at AntaraX, run for you through REKA’s Intelligent Automation (Managed AI).

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AI-generated illustration. High-angle wide editorial photograph from a warehouse mezzanine overlooking a quiet generic industrial test yard in Malaysia, one ordinary unbranded terminal tractor with a short empty trailer parked on a clearly marked fenced test lane, a small glazed control hut visible well away from the vehicle. Overcast natural light, functional worn concrete, no driverless operation asserted, no people near heavy equipment, no company marks or readable signs. Distinct overhead composition from the earlier ground-level parked tractor among containers. Illustrative bounded-domain autonomy research only. AI-generated illustrative photograph, not actual REKA staff, a named client, agency, historical event or deployment.
REKA archive photograph. Actual vehicle-interior scene from the Malaysia Autoshow 2023 article. No claim that these occupants are members of the public or that this is the 2017 ride.REKA archive · Malaysia Autoshow 2023

MARii

The Malaysia Automotive Robotics and IoT Institute is the main stakeholder in REKA’s autonomous vehicle project, from public rides at the Malaysia Autoshow 2017 to the test bed we showed together in 2023.

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Autoware

As a member of the Autoware Foundation, we tune the open self-driving stack for the region’s roads, weather and traffic, and feed improvements back upstream.

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What the press wrote.

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AI-generated illustration. Portrait full-height environmental photograph of an ordinary compact electric campus shuttle, unbranded with a subtle generic sensor unit, parked beside a kerb on a quiet tropical campus road. One fictional adult safety operator seated behind the steering wheel with hands resting on it, doors closed, no boarding passengers, no motion. Tree canopy and modest campus buildings, natural morning light, realistic research vehicle not a futuristic pod. No number plate readable, no branding, no specific Cyberjaya location or claim of an actual REKA deployment. AI-generated illustrative photograph, not actual REKA staff, a named client, agency, historical event or deployment.

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