The city-state of Singapore is investing $ 25 million in mobility research and testing.
Singapore is in terms of autonomous driving very positive, which may also be due to the fact that there are desperately looking for solutions to the traffic. A roadmap should prepare the change of traffic.
Singapore’s Transport Authority. Source straitstimes
The Department of Transportation (LTA) is providing $ 25 million over the next five years to promote and deploy the technology.
The sector should be up to authorities 2030 Create around 8,000 new jobs for skilled workers and management personnel. However, by the autonomous driving also jobs get lost, especially among professional drivers. Therefore, there will be training programs.
The $ 25 million budget is for collaborative projects. One of these project partners is ST Kinetics, Apart from Autonomous Driving, autonomous vehicles are also supported robot in the industry, for the maintenance of rails and Augmented reality Work.
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