{"id":98509,"date":"2026-11-09T20:48:29","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T12:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=98509"},"modified":"2026-11-09T20:48:29","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T12:48:29","slug":"punggol-residents-concerned-about-av-safety-after-two-near-misses-but-open-to-trials-continuing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=98509","title":{"rendered":"Punggol residents concerned about AV safety after two near misses, but open to trials continuing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<h2>STATE OF PLAY IN SINGAPORE<\/h2>\n<p>Grab&#8217;s self-driving shuttle services, operated in partnership with WeRide, opened to the public on Apr 1 after trials in Punggol began in September 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The ComfortDelGro shuttles, operated in partnership with Pony.ai, launched in June this year.<\/p>\n<p><span>In LTA&#8217;s post-ride surveys in July, 99 per cent of about 900 respondents said they felt safe during their ride and would recommend it to others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>As of September this year, Grab&#8217;s AV fleet had travelled more than 110,000km autonomously on Singapore roads and served more than 12,000 unique riders, the company said. CDG, meanwhile, said its Zig Driverless service has crossed 10,000 rides in Punggol.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Driverless vehicles were first trialled on public roads in Singapore in one-north as early as 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Centre of Excellence for Testing and Research of AVs-NTU was also established in 2016, with a two-hectare test centre designed to replicate the different elements of Singapore\u2019s roads, launched the following year.<\/p>\n<p>AVs have also been deployed in other areas of Singapore, including the WeRide Robobus at Resorts World Sentosa and MooVita at Ngee Ann Polytechnic.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday in Punggol, CNA was unable to book a driverless ride on the Zig app by ComfortDelGro.<\/p>\n<p>A notice said no shuttles were available, either because of high demand or lack of shuttle availability for the route.<\/p>\n<p>CNA also waited at the autonomous shuttle pick-up point for 30 minutes, but no vehicles from Grab arrived.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/singapore\/punggol-autonomous-vehicles-safety-incidents-concern-trials-6535781\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n<p><center><script>\n  atOptions = {\n    'key' : 'ab8cc34fbebd96e6c135978b4baca540',\n    'format' : 'iframe',\n    'height' : 90,\n    'width' : 728,\n    'params' : {}\n  };\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highrevenueformat.com\/ab8cc34fbebd96e6c135978b4baca540\/invoke.js\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STATE OF PLAY IN SINGAPORE Grab&#8217;s self-driving shuttle services, operated in partnership with WeRide, opened to the public on Apr 1 after trials in Punggol&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[7424,9850,176,3103,3321,718,398,11458],"class_list":["post-98509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-concerned","tag-continuing","tag-misses","tag-open","tag-punggol","tag-residents","tag-safety","tag-trials","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}