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Singapore Is About to Trial Full-Size Driverless Buses

A Volvo AB 7300 electric autonomous passenger in Singapore on March 5.Photographer: Ore Huiying/Bloomberg
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Volvo AB is ready to start trialing full-sized driverless buses in Singapore, helping the city state take a step forward in the race to deploy autonomous public transport.

The electric buses, with a capacity close to 80 passengers, will soon begin driving at the campus of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, before trials are extended to public roads, the Swedish company and its partners said Tuesday.