New Yorkers pride themselves on having seen it all, but if there’s one thing they have yet to set their grime-coated eyeballs on, it’s hoards of self-driving cars roaming their streets. For better or worse, New York City has remained AV-free, thanks to ambivalent lawmakers, a subway crisis that has sucked up most of the oxygen, and some fairly restrictive regulations on the books. But that will start to change on August 7th when the city’s first autonomous shuttle service opens its doors to the public in Brooklyn.
The service, which is run by an MIT spinoff called Optimus Ride, consists of a half-dozen six-seater electric vehicles operating within a 300-acre walled-off industrial space called the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Much like other autonomous vehicle (AV) shuttle services that have cropped up in recent years across the country, it is extremely slow and restricted only to a single route: 1.1 miles from the entrance of the Navy Yard to the New York City Ferry dock on the East River. The service will operate on a continuous loop between 7AM and 10:30PM on weekdays.
https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/6/20755163/new-york-city-self-driving-shuttle-service
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