These battery-powered electric pods will be good for Dubai’s pollution and traffic (as well as people that are painfully shy).
If politely making small talk with taxi drivers is one of your greatest fears, well, a solution is on the way.
Driverless cabs are set to arrive on Dubai roads in the near future, and not only do they sound super convenient, they’re also environmentally friendly.
App-based booking service Careem has teamed up with NEXT Future Transportation to launch the battery-powered electric pods in the Middle East, and hope they should help solve congestion and pollution woes.
The pods, which look a little like something straight out of The Jetsons, can drive individually or attach themselves together to create a bus-like structure, so passengers can move between pods.
They’ll pick up passengers on demand, and deliver them door to door using the most efficient route possible.
The mass commuter system will be the first of its kind in the region, and was inspired by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum’s, Vice President and Ruler of Dubai’s, plan to make 25 per cent of Dubai’s transport network smart and driverless by 2030.
NEXT founder and chief executive Emmanuele Spera described the pod system as the “world’s finest autonomous mass transit solution”.
The electric pods can seat six passengers (or 10 if standing), so it sounds like there’ll definitely be options to pod-pool, if needed.
Careem and NEXT say their pods will be a much safer way to travel, but there’s no word yet on exactly we should expect them to launch.
Fingers crossed it’s soon, because this sounds like the perfect solution to the daily commute…
source:whatson
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