Volkswagen’s autonomous ridesharing subsidiary MOIA is committing to delivering driverless rides to the city of Hamburg by 2025, and the company’s CEO explains the background on Thursday’s Highways Voices podcast from the ITS World Congress sponsored by SWARCO and GEWI.
“The goal
really is by 2024-25 we'll have a commercial ride pooling service without
safety drivers fully autonomous available here in Hamburg,” Robert Henrich told
host Paul Hutton. “These vehicles now exist, you can see them you can
touch them… and we now start mapping and start doing the test drives. It's now
finally happening.”
Other
technical advancements in Hamburg are explained by Martin Huber, who
is Director General of Hamburg’s Ministry of Transport and Mobility Transition
who joins Paul again to discuss existing technology on the streets of the city
including “Red lights that given invisible signal, which is exactly the same as
the light on the micro second” that interface with connected and autonomous
vehicles.
Ronny
Dittrich from GEWI has perfected a way of managing roadworks in real time to
improve the environment and road safety explaining, “TIC for work zones is a
system where everyone working with work zones in a company, and maybe also
other companies can put their work zones into a single system… where conflicts
can be detected,” while we also hear about a connected safety solution for
cyclists and pedestrians, the reaction of two Clearview Intelligence experts
checking out the Congress as visitors and, of course, Eric Sampson’s guide to
Thursday at the Congress and the latest news from Highways News HQ with Adrian
Tatum.
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