PARIS: Ride-hailing platform Bolt, alongside Chinese company Pony.ai and carmaker Stellantis began testing self-driving taxis in Luxembourg on Monday, the companies said.<\/p>\n
The trial, which will be conducted over a year, initially involves five vehicles in the town of Bissen and will be gradually expanded to 30 vehicles and include Luxembourg City to ensure the “robotaxis” can handle a crowded urban driving environment, Bolt told AFP.<\/p>\n
The trial is one of several planned this year in Europe, which has lagged behind China and the United States in putting self-driving taxis on the roads.<\/p>\n
Bolt said the aim of the trial was to test the vehicles in a “living laboratory”.<\/p>\n
So-called safety drivers will be on board ready to intervene if necessary, as was the case in the early days of testing in China and the United States.<\/p>\n
The launch of the trial came as transport ministers from 17 EU nations meeting in Luxembourg signed a proposal to create a common European “testbed”, a simplified testing approach that will let companies avoid having to obtain approval on a country-by-country basis.<\/p>\n
“It’s important to think cross border, to think European, also for autonomous driving,” said Luxembourg’s minister for mobility, Yuriko Backes.<\/p>\n
Wayve, a British startup specialised in artificial intelligence for self-driving vehicles, said Monday it was ready to launch its robotaxi service with Uber in London as early as this summer.<\/p>\n
The rollout would make Wayve the first company to launch a commercial autonomous taxi service in Britain, ahead of rivals Waymo, owned by Google-parent Alphabet, and China’s Baidu. \u2013 AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PARIS: Ride-hailing platform Bolt, alongside Chinese company Pony.ai and carmaker Stellantis began testing self-driving taxis in Luxembourg on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[2294,5,140],"class_list":["post-8118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-luxembourg","tag-driverless-vehicle","tag-luxembourg","tag-technology"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@lu\/116718671308855352","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}