Thursday, August 25, 2016

In Singapore, there were the world’s first unmanned taxi – Kommersant

launched a project company nuTonomy. It was founded by two graduates of MIT. Start-ahead market participants such as Uber, Ford and Google. Details – Darya and Julia Kostina Bezrukova

While the unmanned taxi -. Is a service for the elite. Call Singapore car without a driver can only be received a special invitation from the carrier. In addition, the company’s taxi pool nuTonomy only six cars with unmanned control. By the end of the year their number will double.

Taxi operates on the territory of the business center – an area of ​​6.5 sq km. Unmanned fleet is formed of electric cars Renault Zoe and Mitsubishi i-MiEV. Each vehicle is equipped with six sets of Lidar system. It uses a laser to orientation in space. On cars also have two chambers for obstacle detection and recognition of traffic signals.

While the unmanned trip to the taxi is free. But later nuTonomy going to move away from charity. By 2018, all ordinary cars in the park of the company will be replaced by electric cars without drivers. For unmanned transport future, confident Executive Officer Doug Parker nuTonomy.

«This is indeed a historic moment. It can even change the principles of the construction, we will take a closer look at what surrounds man. Remember, because of the emergence of mass production of automobiles after World War II in the United States there were many new cities. I think unmanned machine will change the city in the world “, – three years, Parker said

Startup nuTonomy was created earlier.. In May 2016, he received $ 16 million from the United States and Singapore investors. Running unmanned taxi in the Asian city-state, the company ahead of those who have been developing projects in the industry. For example, Uber and Volvo are going to present their driver’s cab without a few weeks in Pittsburgh. Investments in the project amounted to $ 300 million. Unmanned vehicles are also developing Tesla, Ford and Google.

The machines that do not need a man, not conquer the market through the years, and through the decades. So far, the main problem – is security. So says the chief editor of the portal “Auto Mail.Ru» Denis Smoljanov.

«Sooner or later supersede unmanned vehicles, relatively speaking, the usual. This will happen in the next 15-20 years. The main problem lies in the fact that as yet we are afraid to trust the electronics completely, because we are talking about our lives and the lives of others. We all need to be sure that the technology works. Now a lot of questions when the unmanned control system might have something to miss, not to predict what is called a “- Smoljanov said.

In May, there was the first fatal accident involving a car, which was moving on autopilot. Tesla electric car collided with a wagon on the track in Florida. The company then stated that the on-board computer can not recognize the white trailer truck on background of a bright sky. I do not exclude the human factor. After an accident posts Tesla shares collapsed by 10%.

In Russia, the first unmanned buses may appear in 2018. KamAZ work on the project, “Yandex” and Automobile Institute us. The first series – a 12 shuttles that will run on the business park areas, science cities, museum complexes and airports


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