ST Kinetics to develop autonomous vehicles

Singapore

ST Kinetics will develop two autonomous buses and four self-driving shuttles here in its first major non-defence venture, with the results of this commercial undertaking likely to be exported to other cities with similar land transport challenges.

The unit of ST Engineering will partner the Land Transport Authority (LTA) to conduct trials for the autonomous buses, which are 12 metres long with a maximum speed of 60 kmh and can seat 40 people.

To be developed over 42 months in three phases, the buses will run on fixed and scheduled routes …