The experimentation will start in Spring 2022 in Bari and provides for the operation of a fully electric bus, without steering wheel and driver. Manufactured by the French company Navya, it features 10-hour autonomy and can carry up to fifteen people (11 sitting and 4 standing), stopping at the bus stops or in front of unforeseen obstacles and travelling the road at a maximum speed of 25 kilometres/hour.
The highway code in Italy today prohibits the circulation of vehicles without driver: in the experimentation phase in Puglia, then, they have then provided for the presence of a person who can give assistance. The vehicle has a cost of 250,000 Euros and is framed in the project of the House of Emerging Technologies, selected to obtain a funding worth about 6 million Euros.
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