this is glydways, a suzuki—backed self—driving public transport system that initially wants to changeng to have their first pilot next year, with the carts travelling on dedicated sections of road about the size of cycle lanes. but while autonomous vehicle features like self—parking are becoming more common, when it comes to water, introducing that kind of tech has a unique set of challenges. and this is a boat trying to overcome them. in this case, we have a system of stereo cameras around the boat. so the boat understands its environment and it can move itself in all different directions. so you can programme it to move automatically into a docking location. the system here is using cameras rather than lidar, which is often used in autonomous driving. that's because the tech has to be able to deal with reflections from the water. and of course, the conditions are very different from the road. when you stop a car, it stays still. typically, when you stop a boat, it continues to move because there's wind and waves and currents acting on it. and there's a lot of inertia and it pitches

this is glydways, a suzuki—backed self—driving public transport system that initially wants to changeir first pilot next year, with the carts travelling on dedicated sections of road so the boat understands its environment and it can move itself in all different directions. so you can programme it to move automatically into a docking location. the system here is using cameras rather than lidar, which is often used in autonomous driving. that's because the tech has to be able to deal with reflections from the water. and of course, the conditions are very different from the road. when you stop a car, it stays still. typically, when you stop a boat, it continues to move because there's wind and waves and currents acting on it. and there's a lot of inertia and it pitches and rolls. unlike parking a car, it's sometimes difficult to know what a dock is. boats pull up against a lot of different structures made of wood and concrete so we have to be able to recognise all that variety. a vessel like this doesn't come cheap, but something more affordable is their electric hydrofoil flight board.