Førerløs elbuss can replace Fornebubanen – Asker og Bærums Budstikke

They will do the Uk to the forefront for the use of self-driving buses.

today opened Acando, Flytoget, Telenor, Router, NHO Transport a small pilot project, where a self-executing elbuss to run at Fornebu on Thursday and Friday.

The trade association ICT-Norway give the project their full support. And all are impatient for to get started. The government is working to put in place the legal basis for the trial for self-driving vehicles already next year.

Managing director Sven Ivar Mørch in Acando believes that a self-driving bus is far safer than driving a car with a driver.

– 50 per cent of the accidents were caused personfeil, he points out and adds:

– self-driving buses could directed such that the retrieving people in the home. But they are suitable only for short trips and not driving faster than 40 km/h.

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You have tested out elbuss for the Fornebu-Lysaker. Managing director Heidi Austlid in ICT-Norway points out that the technology has been available a long time, and think it is a pity it has not been taken in use earlier.

There is currently a rapid technological development on the field.

– be possible with self-driving buses to Lysaker above to build Fornebubanen, ” she says.

the Participants in the project are gathered for over half of all public transport in Norway. They will work actively to get to the further testing of self-driving buses as soon as possible.

It is important that we do not use for a long time to study before the new technology can be put to use. Then we will lose ground to our neighboring countries, ” says commercial director Emil Eike in the Airport.

He refers to the fact that Finland is in the driver’s seat in a process to get new regulations in the EUROPEAN union for the self-driving buses.