"There are still no official plans for the public to test nuTonomy's vehicles in Boston. The cars will still be supervised by a "research driver," so they are far from "driverless," said Bryant Walker Smith, professor at the University of South Carolina, and an expert on the legal aspects of self-driving vehicles. And testing on public roads has been happening for years—Google has been doing it since 2009.
Still, it's a big move. Michael Ramsey, autonomous vehicle analyst at Gartner, is interested by the location. "Boston has highly variable weather conditions and complicated streets," he said. "The initial test in Boston will be a tightly geo-fenced area to limit the potential issues that could arise from the test.""
- Date Published:11/21/2016
- Original Publication:TechRepublic