Business View Civil and Municipal | January 2021

75 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL JANUARY 2021 as a result of their work here they ended up taking their lessons learned to help create a 2.0 version of their vehicle. This is a good example of having a piece of technology use our living laboratory to get adjusted and refined in order to make it even closer to being available to the general public.” If the driverless shuttle wasn’t enough to turn heads, having 100 tele-operated e-scooters traveling around the area without human drivers certainly was. As Johnson explains, “Go X and Tortoise partnered to create tele-operated scooters that can be remotely driven by humans. The way this works is that when someone is not on the e-scooters, two training wheels come down on the side to give it stability. And then from a remote location, in this case Mexico City, the company has a human dial into that particular e-scooter and take over driving it by looking through a camera mounted on the scooter. They are testing two things: one is the ability to take e-scooters and redeploy them or remove them from settings that were creating sidewalk congestion problems in big cities. The other is the repositioning of them, which is a costly endeavour every night.” Rather than have trucks pick up the e-scooters and bring them back to charging stations, the e-scooters are remotely driven to areas where they can be charged or rented by another individual. They are also testing the use of an app that people can use to summon an e-scooter like they do an Uber or a Lyft. When the e-scooter arrives, the person jumps on it and takes over control. Once the operator has reached their destination, the e-scooter can be summoned by another driver. With the onset of COVID-19, measures have been put in place to have each e-scooter return to a docking station where it is disinfected before being redeployed. While not as visible as autonomous vehicle testing, additional innovations of equal importance in the evolution of technology PROVIDING A FULL CONTINUUM OF INNOVATIVE SERVICES TO RESTORE AND ENHANCE OUR NATION’S INFRASTRUCTURE Peachtree Corners Pedestrian Bridge atTown Center Norcross, Georgia MBAKERINTL.COM Proud 2020 Bronze Sponsor for Peachtree Corners Your local one stop shop for Let’s connect! --- things IT ALL TRANSFORMING IT THROUGH STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS dadam@corus360.com | 404-579-1011 | corus360.com IBM Platinum Partner Cisco Gold Partner Microsoft Gold Partner Veeam Platinum Partner VMware Premier Partner Dell/EMC Platinum Partner NetApp Gold Partner AWS Advanced Consulting Pure Storage Elite Partner HPE Gold Partner Juniper Elite Partner Splunk Partner Daniel Adam PEACHTREE CORNERS , GEORGI A