nuTonomy is officially the first in the world to roll out self-driving Taxis, beating Uber and Google self-driving car project to it. The service has already started in Singapore. Passengers in Singapore will be able to hail this taxi service via their smartphones. The taxi services is only available in select areas and to a limited number of people who were sent an invite to install the app.
Uber is supposed to offer a similar service in Pittsburg in a few weeks and nuTonomy plans on making the taxi service available across the entire country by 2018.
nuTonomy fleet includes Renault Zoe’s and Mitsubishi i-MiEV electric cars and each car is fitted with 6 sets of Lidar detection system that uses lasers to operate along with one that constantly spins on the roof. There are also 2 cameras on the dashboard for scanning of obstacles and detection of traffic lights.
nuTonomy COO, Doug Parker, estimates that number of cars on roads across Singapore will reduce from 900,000 to 300,000.
