Several cities in the US and China have already put driverless cars into commercial service. SUSS’ Ku Swee Yong and Dr Sheila Conejos look at how close Singapore is to weaving this technology into its transportation mix.
- are we there yet? The short answer is yes. If “arrival” is defined as the paid and commercial use of autonomous vehicles to transport commuters safely and efficiently, we can say that the technology for driverless cars has arrived.
Variously referred to as driverless cars, self-driving cars and robotaxis, these commercial taxi rides operate without safety engineers and human operators on board the AVs.The idea of AVs was imagined more than 100 years ago.
General Motors presented their early vision of AVs at the Futurama exhibit in the 1939 World Fair in New York. Their display portrayed radio controlled electric automobiles powered by circuits embedded in the road surface. In General Motors’ “wonderworld of 1960” vision, there were no traffic jams and no road accidents.
To top these impressive achievements, Waymo has consistently been transparent about their safety performance data. A report released in October 2020 revealed that there were no “at-fault” incidents by the Waymo vehicle over 6 million miles, or about 8 lifetimes of human driving, on actual streets. This compares exceptionally well with human drivers who, driving the same distance, would have recorded six injury-crashes.
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