One-North gets a taste of Singapore’s first autonomous taxi service

SINGAPORE (Aug 25): NuTonomy, an autonomous vehicle startup, today launched the world’s first-ever public trial of a robo-taxi service in Singapore.

NuTonomy says in a Thursday statement that the launch of the public trial represents “the first, rapid result” of its partnership with LTA.

The trial is held within the One-North business district, where the company says it has been conducting daily autonomous vehicle (AV) testing since April. It allows select Singapore residents to use NuTonomy’s ride-hailing smartphone app to book a ride in self-driving cars have been configured for autonomous driving by NuTonomy – at no cost.

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