The driverless taxis start rolling today.
Home Upen NuTonomy step ahead Uber to launch self-driving taxis. Starting on Thursday to be the company’s taxis start picking up passengers in Singapore, but it is so far limited to a smaller area.
Uber recently revealed that within a few weeks to do similar tests with self-driving Volvo cars in Pittsburg. For NuTonomys part so these are initially for six cars, but it will be extended to around a dozen by year-end. To begin with, an engineer from now sit in the car to monitor and be able to take control.
The goal of NuTonomy is to have a fleet of self-driving taxis in Singapore in 2018, which would helping to reduce the number of cars on the road. NuTonomy uses the modified Renault Zoe and Mitsubishi i-MiEV and the test takes place in the business district One North with selected passengers who are invited to the service.
NuTonomy, whose business has a background in research at the prestigious MIT, drug up $ 3.6 million through a seeding round in January, followed by $ 16 million in May.
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