Gitex Global: Driverless Dubai taxis will be cheaper than limousine services

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00:00Every year RTA makes sure actually we take a place as part of the Geotextile Exhibition.

00:08This year we are bringing lots of new initiatives around Metaverse, around digital twins.

00:14One of the main initiatives over here is what we are presenting is the cruise vehicle.

00:19RTA partnered with GM Cruise in providing 4,000 taxis starting from year 2023 as an

00:27autonomous taxi.

00:29We are at this stage preparing for the service launch.

00:32We start preparing the city, the digital infrastructure, the maps that will be required to operate

00:36this vehicle.

00:37We are aiming to start a trial using the EV vehicle, the Bolt that we can see over here

00:42in the trial.

00:43The trial will last until Q3 2023 and we are aiming for the service launch by end of 2023.