Hazelwood Missouri, May 2021 – Labyrinth Smart Mobility, an electric vehicle manufacturer located near Lambert Airport, is developing intelligent low speed electric vehicles designed to work in tandem with the smart city lighting network being deployed throughout downtown St. Louis as part of Project #LightMySTL.

“Labyrinth Smart Mobility is a on demand low speed electric vehicle that is married to technology,” said Thomas Wong, the President & CEO of Labyrinth Smart Mobility, a subsidiary of Labyrinth Technologies. “We have that niche market within the future of autonomous vehicles and also with electric vehicles. The two things are integrated together.”

While some of the biggest names in the global automotive industry and technology are pushing hard to create safe autonomous electric vehicles, Labyrinth is taking a different approach that has the potential to transform cities around the world by simply updating already existing infrastructure.

“Everybody is going to go electric,” Wong said. “Also, everybody wants to talk about autonomous.”

“We are carving out a niche where we don’t have to compete,” Wong said. “We have our own infrastructure, and we have our own cars that will be able to connect for the future.”

The engineers at Labyrinth Smart Mobility are designing intelligent vehicles that communicate with the patented technology they developed for their smart streetlights.

“Our goal is to connect the actual vehicles to the lights” Wong said. “Basically to be able to read off all of the lights.”

Their mission is to make autonomous vehicle travel in a busy urban environment safer by allowing a moving vehicle to communicate in real time with an entire network of smart lights equipped with sophisticated sensors.

“If it reads off the poles and the car has good sensors, they know when to stop,” Wong said.

While most companies like Tesla have invested heavily in software and smart sensors they place on their vehicles, the Labyrinth’s trademarked “Smart Mobility To Smart Infrastructure” approach of using infrastructure to communicate instantaneously with a moving vehicle allows the car to see much further down the road than any human driver or even an autonomous vehicle by itself would be able to do.

“We know we have the technology. We know we have the car,” Wong said. “We know how to connect that all together to make it safe and drive economic development.”

While the engineers at Labyrinth are currently developing their own autonomous vehicle at their facility in Hazelwood, they have also purchased and are modifying some human powered Polestar vehicles to provide ride servicing in St. Louis while they perfect the smart technology that will make driverless vehicles a reality.

“We are trying to connect people and one area to the next,” Wong said. “It brings more uniqueness to the place and it attracts tourism.”

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