CNA938 Rewind - Learning in motion: what the Punggol AV accident tells us about AV progress
The Land Transport Authority has confirmed that the recent collision involving a self-driving ComfortDelGro vehicle in Punggol was the result of manual intervention by the on-board safety officer — not a failure of the autonomous system. Does this confirm public fears about self-driving technology, or is it simply part of the teething process? Daniel Martin speaks with Professor Marcelo Ang from NUS’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, and a member of Singapore’s Steering Committee on Autonomous Vehicles.