Volkswagen pretende lançar Micro-ônibus elétrico que anda sozinho pelas ruas e substitui o uso de um motorista

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Written by Valdemar Medeiros

Published on 12/05/2021 at 17:44

Micro ônibus sem o uso de motorista da VW – Fonte: Techradar

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With the Aim of Innovating in the Autonomous Electric Car Market, Multinational Volkswagen Plans to Develop a Type of Microbus That Travels Alone on Streets and Dispenses the Need for a Driver

Multinational Volkswagen announced that the electric microbus ID Buzz, will be launched as a type of “robot-bus” to provide accessible vehicle-sharing solutions in cities thanks to Level 4 autonomous driving technology by 2025. Tests with the autonomous ride-sharing company MOIA will take place in Munich and Pennsylvania later this year, using prototypes of the ID Buzz.

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The “digital driver,” as Volkswagen refers to the ID Buzz, is not yet complete. In fact, it is not the innovative car that many are imagining. Multinational Volkswagen will start building it next year, but what the automaker is announcing today is that it is working with the autonomous technology company Argo AI to build an ultra-ambitious autonomous system. It will be implemented in specific urban areas by MOIA as part of its ride-sharing program.

Level 4 is a type of autonomy that has been proven in a test by AutoX in Shenzhen, China, where the robotic axes are actually moving on their own. It is defined as the vehicle that has the capability for a human to take over, but is completely self-sufficient in a geographically restricted area.

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“Vehicles with digital drivers allow access to mobility for everyone; you democratize mobility, it is a service product,” said the head of Mobility as a Service at multinational Volkswagen, Christian Senger. “The digital driver will be even safer than the human driver.”

And as our commitment to electric vehicle mobility in cities can also be very clean, cities become more attractive to live in.” If only there were a widely available form of accessible road transport around defined routes in cities. Oh wait, there it is: public transport. The humble bus has been doing this job for decades without anyone thinking, “the real problem with this is that it has a driver,” instead of, “the real problem with this is that some weird guy is talking to me again, man.”

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Buses already have suspension ready to be lowered to make passage through a ramp easily accessible; they are also large so that you can accommodate many people on board and are widely available in urban environments.

Multinational Volkswagen states that 50% of the ride-sharing market lives in 10 cities in the United States and Europe: Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Miami, Boston, and Washington DC in the United States and Hamburg, Barcelona, Rome, Madrid, Paris, Naples, Milan, Berlin, Athens, and Vienna in Europe.

The AI from Argo used in Volkswagen’s new electric car uses cameras, long-range lidar, short-range lidar, microphones, and radar to try to replicate the awareness around the vehicle that is needed.

It tests its AIs by putting them in “challenging” scenarios, like complex interchanges, and although they are not there yet, Argo is confident it will be able to launch Level 4 autonomous drivers by 2025 and that the ID Buzz is the right platform to achieve this.

MOIA is so confident in Argo’s AI that it is already the first client of VW’s project, which is expected to meet the 2025 timeline with a launch in Hamburg, although Uber just sold its disastrous attempt at an autonomous car.

Volkswagen Plans To Launch Self-Driving Electric Minibus That Replaces The Need For A Driver

With the Aim of Innovating in the Autonomous Electric Car Market, Multinational Volkswagen Plans to Develop a Type of Microbus That Travels Alone on Streets and Dispenses the Need for a Driver

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With the Aim of Innovating in the Autonomous Electric Car Market, Multinational Volkswagen Plans to Develop a Type of Microbus That Travels Alone on Streets and Dispenses the Need for a Driver

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