Self-driving cab roll-out in Singapore gathers intelligence

In early Aug this year, nuTonomy was comparison by a Singapore Land Transport Authority as a investigate and growth partner to support a growth of a blurb unconstrained car use in a city-state.

“This year saw a record for driverless cars benefit most traction, with trials conducted from Boston to Tokyo to a UK,” pronounced Lionel Lim, vice-president and handling executive Asia Pacific during large information program organisation Pivotal.

“For Singapore, a introduction of unconstrained taxis is partial of a city-state’s prophesy for a car-light future. However, as story has taught us, a impact of any intrusion in multitude is dynamic by how we strap it. If driverless cars are simply another form of private tenure vehicles, it will indeed lead to some-more cars, not less.”

nuTonomy was founded in 2013 by former MIT engineers Karl Iagnemma and Emilio Frazzoli. It lifted US$3.6m appropriation in January, followed by $16m in May from try capitalists, led by Highland Capital Partners and enclosed appearance from Fontinalis Partners, Signal Ventures, Samsung Ventures and EDBI, a dedicated corporate investment arm of a Singapore Economic Development Board.

Besides Singapore, nuTonomy also operates self-driving cars in Michigan, US, and a UK.