Southeast Asia’s leading ride-hailing service provider, Grab, has launched a pilot to test an autonomous electric bus in its home market, Singapore. The company has collaborated with Autonomous A2Z (A2Z), a full-stack autonomous vehicle technology producer based in South Korea.
Grab has retrofitted an electric shuttle bus with A2Z’s autonomous software and hardware and in-house Internet of Things (IoT) devices. The modified bus features eleven sensors, including a 360º spinning, long-range LiDAR, a regular long-range LiDAR, a long-range radar, and cameras, which enable it to accurately perceive and interpret its surroundings. In case any of the autonomous driving technologies malfunctions, a pre-programmed safety algorithm automatically instructs the bus to come to a safe and complete stop.
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