There will be an autonomous shuttle starting (testing) october 2015 in Wageningen, the Netherlands. Production use expected May 2016. Big caveats though: will drive only 25 km/h, won't operate at night or in bad weather. It'll shuttle between Ede trainstation and the WUR campus.
Fortunately we are starting at Bay area where bad weather is less frequent and we can also operate on mild bad weather and have done lot of testing at night (in fact that was our prime hours of testing). We have also worked in bright sunny daylight in scorching heats and overcome issues with sensor noise in both conditions, only hoping to make even smarter algorithms and deals with more wider range of situations and we continue our pilots and paid deployments.
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There will be an autonomous shuttle starting (testing) october 2015 in Wageningen, the Netherlands. Production use expected May 2016. Big caveats though: will drive only 25 km/h, won't operate at night or in bad weather. It'll shuttle between Ede trainstation and the WUR campus.
Fortunately we are starting at Bay area where bad weather is less frequent and we can also operate on mild bad weather and have done lot of testing at night (in fact that was our prime hours of testing). We have also worked in bright sunny daylight in scorching heats and overcome issues with sensor noise in both conditions, only hoping to make even smarter algorithms and deals with more wider range of situations and we continue our pilots and paid deployments.
When do you expect to have a ready-to-purchase product for sale? Do you target US only at first? What will your product cost, order of magnitude?