Autonomous Vehicles
Investing In Deep Tech Is Akin To Investing In The Future
Deep technology has the potential to solve the world’s biggest societal issues. This has not gone unnoticed by nations – Singapore, for example, has injected an additional S$300 million into its Startup SG Equity scheme in its recent Budget 2020 announcement, to support the commercialisation of startups whose businesses are based on innovative research. However, …
Singapore Ranks First As The Most Optimistic City For Driverless Mobility
According to the latest findings from a Driverless Mobility Dialogue, most Singaporeans are ready to embrace the introduction of autonomous vehicles (AVs) on the road. TUMCREATE and the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) worked together to conduct a Driverless Mobility Dialogue, with 60 Singaporeans from all walks of life, to better understand Singaporeans’ …
Autonomous Vehicle Testbed To Be Expanded To Western Singapore – Continued Emphasis On Public Safety
The Land Transport Authority (LTA) will expand the geographical zone within which autonomous vehicle (AV) companies can apply to do testing, from the current sites such as Buona Vista, CleanTech Park, Jurong Island, the Nanyang Technological University, and Sentosa, to a region covering all of western Singapore. Expansion of Testbed LTA has been facilitating on-road …
ABB To Electrify Autonomous Vehicles For New Port In Singapore
ABB has won a contract from ST Engineering Land Systems Ltd. to deliver and commission integrated smart charging points for Automated Guided Vehicles (AGV) in the new Tuas port of Singapore. Deliveries of the vehicles, which will be deployed to transport heavy shipping containers at the port terminal, are scheduled to begin from September 2020 …
First On-Demand Autonomous Shuttle Trial Opens To Public
Singapore’s first on-demand autonomous shuttle public trial was officially launched at Sentosa today, marking a major milestone since on-road testing of the autonomous shuttles began in June 2018. The public trial will run from 26 August to 15 November 2019. Members of public visiting Sentosa will be able to hail an autonomous shuttle via the …
Autonomous Shuttle Trial Starts At The National University of Singapore
A fully autonomous shuttle is going on trial at the National University of Singapore’s (NUS) Kent Ridge campus, as part of a year-long study aimed at gauging the commercial viability of such a service. To be operated by ComfortDelGro’s wholly-owned subsidiary, ComfortDelGro Bus Pte Ltd, the EasyMile EZ10 autonomous bus shuttle, known as NUSmart Shuttle, …