Viral Video Shows Scary Self-Driving Shuttle EV Crash Days After Initial Launch
A self-driving electric shuttle got into an accident days after its launch. The SWAN (Shuttling with Autonomous Navigation) vehicle was in contact with a municipal bus on the road — just two days after it hit the…
A self-driving electric shuttle got into an accident days after its launch.
The SWAN (Shuttling with Autonomous Navigation) vehicle was in contact with a municipal bus on the road — just two days after it hit the streets of 📍Orlando, 🌴Florida in its launch, according to the New York Post.
The city inaugurated the service on Aug. 20.
The crash took place on Tuesday.
In a twist, a user of the small automated and electric vehicle was recording at the time of the accident — and shared a clip of the incident on TikTok.
📍Orlando journalist McKenna Schueler raised questions about the $500,000 SWAN program after the collision.
“📍Orlando’s autonomous SWAN Shuttle launched this week, and by Tuesday, it struck a Lynx bus causing minor damage to both vehicles,” she wrote, quoting the Orlando Sentinel.
“Seems like this $500,000 pilot program is going well.”
Americans are broadly cautious about the idea of driving alongside automated vehicles on the nation’s cities and highways.
A Pew Research poll indicated that 44 percent of the public consider the gradual introduction of automated cars into transit to be bad for society.
A 63 percent majority also indicated that they would not want to ride in such a vehicle.
📍Orlando’s SWAN bus is designed for an attendant to sit on board at all times — and potentially take control of the automated vehicle, according to the 📍Orlando Sentinel.
A representative for the city indicated that there were no plans to alter the SWAN pilot program after the crash, the Sentinel reported.
