Singapore may experience all-aluminium body driverless buses by 2020

<p>The Land Transport Authority (LTA) and ST Kinetics signed partnership agreement on Monday, Apr 10, to develop driverless buses in Singapore by 2020.The buses will have all-aluminium body in order to keep it light and will be electrically powered.</p> <p><img style="vertical-align: middle; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src="http://www.alcircle.com/uploads/images/42205911_-_10_04_2017_-_ctauto11.jpg" alt="news" width="517" height="226" /></p> <p>ST Kinetics expects to unveil a prototype by early next year. The buses will get level 4 autonomy initially that will allow the bus to be driven by itself but will still be manned.</p> <p>The company will make two 40-seater electric buses - the first time a Singapore company is building an autonomous bus. It will be tested in locations like the National University of Singapore (NUS) campus and Jurong Island before hitting the public roads.</p> <p>{googleAdsense}</p> <p>The buses will have satellite-based global positioning system (GPS) and sensors to scan. The driverless buses will also feature radars and sonars, to detect other vehicles and pedestrians up to 200m ahead.</p> <p>Dr Lee Shiang Long, president, ST Kinetics, said that these deal is different from other autonomous vehicle projects by serving public transport necessities instead of private.</p>