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Fancy a stroll in the Chinese and Japanese Gardens? Why not up the ante, book a ride online and take a driverless buggy ride through the gardens? Making this a reality are researchers and engineers from the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) [新加坡-麻省理工学院科研中心], and the National University of Singapore (NUS), as Singapore builds up to be the world’s first Smart Nation.

This is the first time, not one, but two driverless vehicles are being deployed, free-of-charge for public use.

[...] Commuters can monitor the locations of the vehicles [from a website]. The buggies will also feature vehicle-to-vehicle communications that will allow each vehicle to know where the other vehicle is. This allows the buggies to know if there is a possibility of overlapping paths, and for each buggy to intelligently determine how best to move so as to improve the overall efficiency of the fleet.