Vancouver company to develop driverless bus system for E.U.

VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) – The European Union is turning to some local tech entrepreneurs to develop an automated transit bus system.

Vancouver company Spare, has been awarded the project to develop driverless buses that can safely interact with regular traffic.

“There’s still some road left to go in terms of obstacle avoidance,” said Kristoffer Vik Hansen with Spare. “So that’s going to be a mixture. Some will be more in separated lanes and some are going to be mixed in traffic with pedestrians and cyclists.”

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The project will include trial fleets in some of the continent’s major countries.

Hansen says public transit could greatly benefit from automated driving.

“Basically one of the best use cases for autonomous vehicle technology is most-likely going to be in mass transportation and that’s kind of why this project even got started in general so this is very much in line with public transit.”

Testing will begin in March 2020 throughout six European countries including Estonia, Finland and Portugal.

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