Voyage, a self-employed startup that provides transportation services to the elderly, equips its autonomous minivans with an ambulance-adapted UV lighting formula that sterilizes cars after each and kills the Covid-19.
“How can you prevent a passing passenger from passing Covid to the next passenger? We’ve looked at the ambulances because the ambulances have already solved this problem. Turns out his ultraviolet light,” Cameron told Forbes. This led him to GHSP, which manufactures UV-C lighting systems to sterilize ambulances. “Between trips, when the car is absolutely empty, those lighting devices are on. And they’re amazing. They kill Covid-19 on surfaces, as well as other infectious viruses such as seasonal influenza.
Like all industries, autonomous vehicle developers have been working to adapt to the pandemic. Robotaxi operators like Waymo have not resumed public shipping services, road testing of AI-compatible cars continues. At the same time, efforts to prepare robot trucks and delivery cars that can help maintain the fluidity of logistics operations have been intensified. Voyage, which has not yet resumed shipping activities, says it is taking the time to upgrade its cars and service for the older passengers it serves.
Unlike Waymo, Cruise and other U.S. programs, Travel specializes in offering door-to-door driverless van travel for seniors in the retirement communities of California and Florida. These enclosed environments, with declining average speed limits, are less difficult to operate than the phoenix suburbs or downtown San Francisco, but they also require transportation facilities for physically constrained or physically constrained seniors.
Ultraviolet lighting is destructive to humans, so Travel also has sensors on the seats and is connected to trip if provided to an occupant before the UV-C formula is activated. On-board cameras also monitor the cockpit so that human technicians can be remotely sure that no one is providing the sterilization process.
Travel, which started working directly with Fiat Chrysler this year to change the pickup trucks for its program, will first run on 15 of the new G3 pickup trucks, before moving on to “hundreds,” Cameron says. Although he refused to provide express main points on load relief with the new formula, the maximum savings came from a sharp drop in sensor loads, which fell by 65%, and 25% relief in the computer load. formula used through Travel.
Falling prices “pave the way for a successful robotaxi business that caters to the elderly,” Cameron said.
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