Another company is testing driverless cars on US roads

Self-driving cars have become an emerging technology hotspot, and the United States has become a leading country in the development and testing of self-driving cars. Currently, many companies have signed agreements with different cities in the United States to test self-driving cars on urban roads.

According to the American technology news website TheVerge, NuTonomy, a driverless car developer spun off from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, announced that it will test driverless cars in Boston, a major city in the eastern United States.

California, where Silicon Valley is located, is the most active in conducting autonomous driving trials. Not long ago, Chinese search engine Baidu was also allowed to drive driverless cars on the road in California. In addition to Baidu, Volkswagen, Ford , Google, Faraday Future and other companies have also obtained permits.

In addition, Google is testing driverless cars in Mountain View, California, and Kirkland, Washington, while Uber, a mobile car company, has chosen Pittsburgh, where Carnegie Mellon University is located. In addition, there are companies testing driverless cars in Washington.

NuTonomy has signed an agreement with Boston to bring driverless cars to the city for the first time. Later this year, the company will put its self-driving Renault Zoe electric cars on the road in areas such as South Boston.

This means that even when driving on public roads, the company's driverless cars will still avoid areas with heavy traffic.

Previously, the American company set up a test base for driverless cars in Singapore, Asia, which has set aside an area for some technology companies to test self-driving cars.

Boston is also one of the technology centers in the eastern United States. The mayor of the city said in a statement that through cooperation with NuTonomy, Boston will also join the list of cities that are pioneering new models of future transportation.

The company was originally a research team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was officially spun off as an independent technology company in 2013. However, the company has been conducting driverless car trials in Singapore so far. Its entry into Boston is also a return to its roots.

In August this year, the company launched the world's first self-driving taxi service in Singapore, where consumers can even hail a taxi via smartphone. By the end of this year, the company's driverless cars in Singapore will increase to more than a dozen, and by 2018, the company will operate a large fleet of self-driving taxis in Singapore.

In the Boston trial, NuTonomy will deploy an engineer on the driverless car to check the vehicle's surrounding conditions at all times. In addition, the driverless car will not yet start taxi business.

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