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04-05-2017, 10:32 PM
A driverless shuttle called Harry is coming to London and it's low-key exciting
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They're probably **t as glamorous and spectacularly futuristic as self-driving cars, but auto**mous shuttles have some interesting near-future applications that shouldn't be easily dismissed.*
SEE ALSO: These are the first driverless cars in London (http://mashable.com/2016/01/29/self-driving-car-london/)
As part of a public trial that will see 100 people travelling in a prototype driverless vehicle in Greenwich, London, we got to test "Harry," a cute, symmetrical shuttle that is able to navigate the real-world environment without a steering wheel or typical driver controls.*
"Using five cameras and three 3D lasers, the shuttle is able to locate itself on the map without GPS and to understand how it needs to move to reach its destinations," Nick Reed, Academy Director at TRL, which leads the project, said.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/04/05/driverless-shuttle-bus-london-trial/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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They're probably **t as glamorous and spectacularly futuristic as self-driving cars, but auto**mous shuttles have some interesting near-future applications that shouldn't be easily dismissed.*
SEE ALSO: These are the first driverless cars in London (http://mashable.com/2016/01/29/self-driving-car-london/)
As part of a public trial that will see 100 people travelling in a prototype driverless vehicle in Greenwich, London, we got to test "Harry," a cute, symmetrical shuttle that is able to navigate the real-world environment without a steering wheel or typical driver controls.*
"Using five cameras and three 3D lasers, the shuttle is able to locate itself on the map without GPS and to understand how it needs to move to reach its destinations," Nick Reed, Academy Director at TRL, which leads the project, said.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/04/05/driverless-shuttle-bus-london-trial/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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