A day after Waymo, owned by Google&#39;s Alphabet, announced the&nbsp;launch of a fully self-driving fleet of taxis, a self-driving shuttle bus in Las Vegas crashed on the first day of its service.&nbsp;

The shuttle bus, carrying several passengers, collided with a lorry driving at a slow speed.&nbsp;

However, no injuries were reported in the accident.&nbsp;

Citing a public information officer Jace Radke, BBC said, &quot; the delivery truck was coming out of the alley.&quot;

&quot;The shuttle did what it was supposed to do and stopped. Unfortunately, the human element, the driver of the truck, didn&rsquo;t stop.&rdquo;

The city officials have held the lorry driver responsible for the collision.&nbsp;

The Las Vegas shuttle is designed with a system developed by a French Company, Navya.

The company is also testing its technology in London.&nbsp;

The shuttle has been designed to carry up to 15 passengers. It has a maximum speed of 45km/h but typically travels at around 25km/h.

The shuttle bus, carrying several passengers, collided with a lorry driving at a slow speed

A day after Waymo, owned by Google's Alphabet, announced the launch of a fully self-driving fleet of taxis, a self-driving shuttle bus in Las Vegas crashed on the first day of its service. The shuttle bus, carrying several passengers, collided with a lorry driving at a slow speed. However, no injuries were reported in the accident. Citing a public information officer Jace Radke, BBC said, " the delivery truck was coming out of the alley." "The shuttle did what it was supposed to do and stopped. Unfortunately, the human element, the driver of the truck, didn’t stop.” The city officials have held the lorry driver responsible for the collision. The Las Vegas shuttle is designed with a system developed by a French Company, Navya. The company is also testing its technology in London. The shuttle has been designed to carry up to 15 passengers. It has a maximum speed of 45km/h but typically travels at around 25km/h.

Las Vegas: Self-driving shuttle bus crashes on first day of service

French start-up Navya unveiled on Tuesday, the 7th of November, the&nbsp;&#39;Autonomy Cab&#39;, the first driverless taxi to hit the global market, its CEO Christophe Sapet said. &quot;It&#39;s not something that will exist in the future, it&#39;s something that exists before your very eyes,&quot; he told Reuters.

Navya&#39;s newest innovation was designed to be autonomous: there is no cockpit, steering wheel nor pedals. It is an electric car, able to carry one to six passengers and can reach speeds between 50 to 70 km an hour (31 to 43 miles an hour). It is equipped with more than 20 sensors, cameras or radars to maximise the accuracy of its movements.

The small French company is competing with large tech companies, big automakers and other well-funded startups in a race to develop fully autonomous cars.

Alphabet Inc&#39;s Waymo - formerly the Google self-driving car project - announced on Tuesday it plans to roll out its own driverless ride-haling service to the public at a later date. &quot;We are the first to commercialise this vehicle, to put it into operation, to do demos, to show it to the public,&quot; Sapet said.

But while the vehicle can already be ordered, it is still waiting to undergo tests with partners during spring 2018. Its first demonstrations to the public are planned during the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January 2018, with the first shipments expected in July 2018.

French start-up Navya unveiled on Tuesday, the 'Autonomy Cab', the first driverless taxi to hit the global market.

French start-up Navya unveiled on Tuesday, the 7th of November, the 'Autonomy Cab', the first driverless taxi to hit the global market, its CEO Christophe Sapet said. "It's not something that will exist in the future, it's something that exists before your very eyes," he told Reuters. Navya's newest innovation was designed to be autonomous: there is no cockpit, steering wheel nor pedals. It is an electric car, able to carry one to six passengers and can reach speeds between 50 to 70 km an hour (31 to 43 miles an hour). It is equipped with more than 20 sensors, cameras or radars to maximise the accuracy of its movements. The small French company is competing with large tech companies, big automakers and other well-funded startups in a race to develop fully autonomous cars. Alphabet Inc's Waymo - formerly the Google self-driving car project - announced on Tuesday it plans to roll out its own driverless ride-haling service to the public at a later date. "We are the first to commercialise this vehicle, to put it into operation, to do demos, to show it to the public," Sapet said. But while the vehicle can already be ordered, it is still waiting to undergo tests with partners during spring 2018. Its first demonstrations to the public are planned during the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January 2018, with the first shipments expected in July 2018.

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