West Sacramento Considering Driverless Shuttle Buses
West Sacramento Considering Driverless Shuttle Buses
July 11, 2017 7:29 PM By Tony Lopez
WEST SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — The City of West Sacramento is
“kicking the tires” on a driverless shuttle bus.
On Tuesday, city officials and the makers of Transdev, an
autonomous vehicle company, showed how the bus would work.
The EZ-10, as it’s called, is described as a train but
with virtual tracks.
The route is programmed in and off you go.
City officials are looking at the slow-moving vehicle —
it goes between 8 and 15 miles an hour — as one possible way to help transport
people to destinations along the riverfront. Each car holds a dozen people, six
seated, six standing.
So, how does it run?
Dick Alexander, vice president of Transdev, tells CBS13,
“It runs on a battery, The battery life is about 10 hours on it, depends on how
hot of a day and how much air conditioning is being pushed through it.”
Each shuttle bus costs $200,000, and no final decision
has been made on whether the City of West Sacramento will use them.
But Alexander’s sales pitch was impressive to many.
He goes on to say, “If you wanted a vehicle that’s going
to run all day to move people point to point along a specific route like you
have here along the riverfront, it’s pretty ideal to do that.”
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