SINGAPORE: Belgian industrial logistics firm Katoen Natie on Tuesday began using a driverless truck to transport products within Exxon Mobil's premises in Singapore. The autonomous truck, the first such truck ever used in Singapore, transports polymer resin products from a packaging facility to a warehouse 3 to 4 kilometres away at the oil company's manufacturing plant on Jurong Island. The pilot truck, running at a maximum speed of 25km per hour, will move about 250,000 tonnes of products annually, according to Katoen Natie. The driverless truck uses signal-emitting transponders set up on its paths to navigate. But the logistics company hopes to switch to a more advanced GPS-based navigation system to enable such vehicles to ply public roads by 2020.

Source: Bangkok Post October 24, 2017 10:22 UTC