City travel solutions for the vanguard of Singapore recently announced that no one was driving a taxi in Singapore, the official road trial operation! From the beginning of August 25th will be screened some small partners, after the audit on the smart phone to call nuTonomy company's unmanned taxi to free use.
How to call an unmanned "car" in singapore"
Funny little tips: Singapore calls a taxi for a taxi.
Currently, Singapore launched a total of six car driverless taxi, providing a total of 12 places, and the scope of activities is known as the "Singapore Zhongguancun weft one science and technology city One-North around 6.5 square kilometres of commercial residential areas.
Currently, in Singapore on the road of 6 unmanned taxi is composed of Renault Zoe and MITSUBISHI iMiEV electric vehicle two models, the new energy pure electric + unmanned standard configuration.
Technical configuration of the vehicle with other unmanned vehicle similar, each car driverless vehicles in, are equipped with six sets of laser radar detection system, in addition to the roof has been turning a, dashboard and two cameras, designed to scanning obstacles and detecting the traffic lights change.
Of course, whether from the perspective of law or security, unmanned taxi will install a "old driver". In fact is driverless taxi manufacturing nuTonomy engineer, in driving process observation system inside the car performance recorded data, even when the autopilot system occasionally Liaotiaozi downtime can timely "drive" (pollution, suppress, take over the brakes, steering wheel).
This NuTonomy directly to dry turn Uber
Unmanned has become a hot word in the field of mobile travel. From Google's "small pods to Tesla, in addition to a copy of the Internet geeks from the technology constantly brush with unmanned, traditional host plants, such as Volvo, also with hundred years mechanical manufacturing process want to join in the fun.
Although they had been on the road for automatic driving test, but nuTonomy is the first open to the public automatic driving car.
So the question is, the nuTonomy actually backing, a word incompatibility in the fierce competition in the field of unmanned pulled a prize.
This is a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) separated from the start-up companies, set up more than three years, specializing in the development of unmanned taxi.
Although the company is small, they can support the technical support from the United States MIT and the University of Cambridge, and the car manufacturing process is directly related to the French Renault and MITSUBISHI.
The most important is that the company base Singapore, the government directly under the economic development of the government to give financial support and policy facilities.