Are you game to try autonomous vehicles? In parts of South Korea, they already carry passengers on fixed routes, for instance. In Singapore, trials are ongoing, with experts hopeful certain services will become a reality within two years.
SEOUL and SINGAPORE: The year Singapore opened its driverless vehicle test centre, in 2017, the Government unveiled plans to pilot self-driving bus and shuttle services in 2022 in Punggol, Tengah and the Jurong Innovation District.For years, technology companies and car manufacturers had also promised that it would be only a matter of time, and as early as 2020, before self-driving cars are on the road in the millions.
South Korea first opened its autonomous vehicle test centre in 2017 too but has since deployed autonomous taxi and bus services already. The programme Talking Point checks them out in a two-part special and explores what the near future might hold for Singapore.
“It’s one of the locations in the country that experiences the most rain and snow,” he said, adding that RideFlux has collected 8,000 hours of “diverse data” on Jeju’s city roads, mountain roads and coastal roads.He also believes that Jeju has the right infrastructure to support high-tech transport. A feasibility study in 2021 showed, however, that rental cars with C-ITS devices “had significantly lower accident rates than those without”, he cited.
The government wants to improve road safety — as it has been found that more than 90 per cent of car accidents are due to human error — and to provide mobility for the elderly who do not drive and people with disabilities, he added. “After a night out, it’s so hard to find a cab to head back,” he said. “ not even 10, 20 minutes but 30, 40 minutes. Often, I can’t even find any.”Mr Kim Woo-seok books his first autonomous taxi ride via an app on his mobile phone.
Besides taxis, 42dot also wants to commercialise autonomous buses. It is now piloting two self-driving minibuses in Seoul’s city centre.“A bus is difficult to deploy on public roads,” Jeong Seong-gyun, 42dot’s head of autonomous engineering, said. “It’s larger than a taxi and slower than common vehicles.”
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