Dubai (WAM)
His Excellency Mattar Al Tayer, Director-General and Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of the Roads and Transport Authority, announced the start of trials and preparation of digital maps for the Cruise Company’s self-driving vehicles at the end of this year, in preparation for the actual launch of the service in 2023, so that Dubai will be the first city in the world outside the United States of America that operates the company’s vehicles. This comes in implementation of the directives of His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of the Executive Council, to proceed with the implementation of the partnership agreement signed between the Roads and Transport Authority and Cruise to operate the company’s self-driving vehicles to provide taxi service and electronic reservation service. This came when His Excellency received a delegation of the American Cruise Company, headed by Anthony Gregory, the company’s vice president for development in the United States. Mattar Al Tayer said: This initiative contributes to strengthening Dubai World’s leadership in the field of self-driving transportation, and is an important step in achieving Dubai’s strategy for smart, self-driving transportation, which aims to convert 25% of the total mobility trips in Dubai into self-driving trips through various means of transportation by the year 2020. 2030.
He added, “Dubai will be the global platform for the launch of the Cruise Origin model, a vehicle dedicated to shared mobility without a driver, and the year 2023 will be the date for operating cruise self-driving vehicles in a limited number, with plans to gradually increase these vehicles to reach 4000 vehicles by 2030.”
