Self-driving electric shuttle buses to begin at University of Michigan


  • TECH
  • Wednesday, 25 Apr 2018

Mcity launched a driverless shuttle service on the University of Michigan’s North Campus in Ann Arbor, Mich. The electric shuttles are made by French startup Navya. (Mandi Wright/Detroit Free Press/TNS)

ANN ARBOR, Michigan: A pair of self-driving shuttle buses should begin motoring around Ann Arbor this spring in an ambitious test of the new technology with the University of Michigan. 

The electrically powered, 15-seat shuttles will be part of the university's bus service, carrying passengers on a short course in the North Campus. Anybody with a university bus pass will be able to use the shuttles, which will have safety drivers. 

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