Self-driving Cars and Shuttles: Tortoise and Hare?

In the quest to move people and goods without a human driver, debate rages over whether resources are best spent developing low-speed shuttles or highway-capable passenger vehicles. Shuttles may be excellent for short trips, but other transport services still need to be developed to provide for all journeys city-dwellers take. Self-driving passenger cars on the other hand could complete most road-based transport services for consumers but present what is possibly a more difficult task for automation.

This panel will discuss the differences in approach between designing self-driving cars and shuttles, the scale at which the two technologies are being deployed globally and the regulations that are defining how these technologies are being tested and developed.