First driverless community
World’s first public trial of robo-taxi service in Singapore Smart Cities World News, 26 Aug 2016.
"Singapore is understood to be the first country in the world to carry out a public trial of a self-driving taxi service.
The taxis operated by nuTonomy, a developer of state-of-the art software for self-driving cars, can be hailed within Singapore’s one-north business district, where the company has been conducting daily autonomous vehicle (AV) testing since April.
A select group of Singaporean residents will be able to use nuTonomy’s ride-hailing smartphone app to book free rides in the company’s self-driving vehicles.
According to nuTonomy, its so-called ‘robo-taxi’ service will use specially configured Renault Zoe or Mitsubishi i-MiEV electric vehicles, equipped with sophisticated software, which has been integrated with high-performance sensing and computing components."
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"...nuTonomy was selected by the Singapore Land Transport Authority (LTA) as an R&D partner, to support development of a commercial AV service..."
LS comment: So, why not a development planner or municipality within the Victoria CRD? Let’s be the first in Canada !
