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DnD Central / Re: What's going on in Scandinavia, North Atlantic, Baltic States and Scotland?
Last post by Frenzie -https://e-estonia.com/tartu-aims-to-become-the-european-capital-of-self-driving-vehicles/
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To start with, Tartu decided to experiment with on-demand transport in the region. Organising a regular bus route in its sparsely populated surroundings is unreasonable. But according to Tambet Matiisen, Head of Technology at the ADL, this challenge was a perfect opportunity for self-driving cars: it is often easier to achieve driverless mobility on smaller highways than in dense urban settings. Combining these considerations, and with the participation of several technology companies, Tartu ran a widely popular experiment between 26 on-demand stops connected by 66 km of roads.
This pilot provided both the city and other participants with valuable information about future challenges before such a transport system could be applied more widely. Mr Matiisen recalls, for example, how they quickly realised that using traffic lights for navigation is suboptimal.
Something like 24-hour buses could certainly be a very good thing in theory.