Uber’s Top Southeast Asia Rival Joins Self-Driving Car Trial
- Grab app allows selective commuters to ride in nuTunomy cars
- Trial is aimed at gathering research on user experience
A Strides Transportation Pte taxi, operated by SMRT Corp., displays an advertisement for the ride-hailing application Grab, operated by GrabTaxi Holdings Pte, in Singapore, on Tuesday, July 12, 2016.
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Grab, Southeast Asia’s largest ride-hailing service, is about to get a piece of the world’s first public self-driving taxis.
Grab will team with driver-less software developer nuTonomy Inc. for a year to expand the reach of its small fleet of autonomous driving cars in Singapore, as nuTonomy works toward its goal of a full commercial launch by 2018. Grab becomes the second car-hailing service to offer self-driven vehicles on a trial basis to its users, after Uber Technologies Inc.