Tuesday, December 23, 2014

A driverless Uber?

"[Singapore] will open one of its neighborhoods to driverless cars in 2015, with the idea that such vehicles could operate as a kind of jitney service, picking up passengers and taking them to trains or other modes of public transportation. The vehicles might be like golf carts, taking people short distances at low speeds, similar to the driverless vehicles demonstrated this year by Google."
No one knows if it will result in more vehicular traffic or less. An interesting idea all the same.

The full piece can be read here.

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