Image: A highly autonomous self-driving shuttle has entered service at ESA's technical heart. Its official inauguration took place on Tuesday, when it was assigned a suitably spacey name -'Orbiter'- chosen through an employee competition. The Agency's ESTEC establishment in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, is being used as a testbed for the automated shuttle, to assess its viability as a 'last mile' solution for public transport. ESTEC was selected because it is a controlled private environment but w...
Image: A highly autonomous self-driving shuttle has entered service at ESA's technical heart. Its official inauguration took place on Tuesday, when it was assigned a suitably spacey name -'Orbiter'- chosen through an employee competition. The Agency's ESTEC establishment in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, is being used as a testbed for the automated shuttle, to assess its viability as a 'last mile' solution for public transport. ESTEC was selected because it is a controlled private environment but w...
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