Self-driving shuttles are en route to the Sacramento region.
Sacramento is one of two test tracks for Olli shuttles, which can carry eight to 14 passengers without a steering wheel and a driver.
“We actually are a center of technology and it’s burgeoning,” Sacramento’s Chief Innovation Officer Louis Stewart said.
The company, Local Motors, is hosting the “Olli Fleet Challenge” for businesses, nonprofits and universities in Sacramento and Phoenix. Two winners will get their own fleet of Olli vehicles for three months.
Stewart said the idea is to use these shuttles in neighborhoods, on college campuses and healthcare facilities.
“We actually can get these shuttles on the road and get kids where they need to be, or patients on a healthcare campus or students who are running late for class,” he explained.
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