Image copyright nuTonomy Today, in the automotive industry, it seems, all obsessed with drones vehicles. In this area rushed seem to all and sundry, and everyone is trying to win back his place in the headlines with every new step in the development of this type of vehicle or to another of their successful test.
However, always seemed really, that to convert ideas into action will require many more years.
However, here in Singapore today can take now unmanned taxi and take a ride in it. Yes, and completely free of charge.
However, it is a question only of the tests.
However, this is still a small, but a step forward compared with the way things are business in this area of major auto manufacturers, or companies such as Google and Uber.
if the machine goes without a driver Really?
Almost. Since this is a test, then, of course, sitting in front of the driver.
At the same time move the machine without the driver. The driver only needs to monitor the situation and hedging in case something goes wrong.
Who is behind this?
This company is not involved, none of the major brands of the automotive industry, which, as we know, develop unmanned vehicle technology in their research departments and design offices
The company nuTonomy. – startup developer of software for unmanned vehicles, based in the United States.
The company was founded in 2013 by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, specializing in robotics and unmanned technologies. The company has offices in the US and in Singapore.
Earlier this year, digging nuTonomy first received permission from the Government of Singapore for testing of unmanned vehicles in a limited area in the vicinity of the city. Now, however, we began testing and passengers.
How it works?
Given that nuTonomy itself does not produce cars, here you see the dazzling futuristic model designed for unmanned alluring future.
Instead, the company has equipped serial electric vehicles Renault and Mitsubishi own software software and video cameras.
This compact cars, however, were a step forward in comparison with previous tests nuTonomy, passed in 2014 on the basis of golf cart.
in the new test of unmanned taxis involved 6 cars: each of them is equipped with a complex system of lasers that operate as radar, tracking other road users. In addition to this there is also a video camera, computer controlled.
Free trip to Singapore?
Not really. Tests are limited relatively small part of the city, which is far removed from the center.
The taxi will run in a limited area of about 4 square meters. km in the west of the city-state. For the embarkation and disembarkation of passengers special stop provided, so go where the likes will not work
So far, it is a pleasure not for everyone. After receiving an invitation from nuTonomy will need to register, and so only a few dozen people have become far participants of the program.
The company said it intends in the coming months to start providing services to thousands of customers.
Why Singapore?
The city is partly already is a kind of paradise for a taxi. Having your own car in Singapore is expensive – and many here use a taxi on a regular basis
Travel by taxi relatively cheap and in great demand
Traffic in the city is enough organized and.. disciplined.
For Singaporeans term “congestion” means that the traffic lights had accumulated a little more cars than usual.
Therefore, the aim of the current tests not just to hold them, and in to 2018 to create in the country park unmanned taxi – at least, that’s what the company says nuTonomy.
ahead of the competition?
NuTonomy in this issue certainly is in the leading group, but can not say that it is much ahead of the other participants unmanned race.
So, the Uber plans to launch a very similar project in Pittsburgh, the United States in a few weeks.
and virtually every carmaker today is engaged in researches in the field of unmanned technologies – from Tesla’s Silicon valley and ending Ford, Volvo, BMW, and a number of Chinese companies
Internet giant Google, the speaker. as one of the pioneers in this field, conducting extensive tests of its unmanned “guglokarov” and cooperate on this issue with a number of car manufacturers to further developments.
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