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TECHNOLOGY Thursday 8 June 2017

Autonomous cars (no human backup) may hit the road next year

In this March 22, 2006, file photo, Delphi’s World Headquarters is shown in Troy, Mich.
Associated Press

By Tom Krisher other transportation servic- vehicles, said Glen De Vos, enough to use them, but first to carry passengers
Dee-Ann Durbin es in 19 countries, including Delphi Corp.’s chief tech- Leriche said acceptance on roads without human
AP auto writer the u.s. nology officer. “We’re con- may not be that hard to backup drivers. Similar proj-
Detroit (ap) -- autonomous Two on-demand Renault fident that in the event they get. Transdev has surveyed ects are ramping up in Cali-
vehicles with no human Zoe autonomous taxis will would need to intervene, users in autonomous shuttle fornia and the Netherlands,
backup will be put to the be deployed in Rouen, they can,” he said. tests about the service and he said.
test on publicly traveled Normandy, and a shuttle The companies also plan a quality, and more than The partnership comes less
roads as early as next year van will run between a rail similar test in North America 90 percent were excited than a month after U.K.-
in what may be the first at- station and campus in the and are scouting locations, about the service. “They based Delphi joined with
tempt at unassisted auton- university district of Paris- De Vos said. were not afraid of the fact BMW, Intel and Mobileye
omous piloting. Saclay. Both will start with He believes they’ll go that there was no driver,” to develop autonomous
Automotive electronics humans on board later this through several iterations he said. vehicles. Delphi, which has
and parts maker delphi year, with the intent of go- of self-driving software and Bryant Walker Smith, a law U.S. operations just outside
and french transport com- ing fully autonomous some- systems before the French professor at the Univer- of Detroit, makes the com-
pany transdev plan to use time in 2018. From the start, vehicles are fully operation- sity of South Carolina who puting platform that brings
autonomous taxis and a the shuttle van won’t have al sometime in 2019. tracks self-driving cars, said together information from
shuttle van to carry passen- a steering wheel or pedals, Transdev plans to gradu- the Delphi-Transdev proj- the car’s sensors, cameras
gers on roadways in france. and humans will be inside ally spread the technology ect would be among the and computers.q
The companies on wednes- solely to communicate with throughout Paris and other
day said they plan to com- passengers, said Leriche, cities that it serves, so the
bine delphi’s self-driving chief performance officer autonomous vehicles will
technology with transdev’s at Transdev Group. be on roads along with hu-
knowledge of mobility op- But humans at a central dis- man drivers.
erations. Transdev operates patch center would still be It may take a while for
trains, buses, ferries and able to take control of the people to trust the vehicles