Armidale Regional Council wins first regional trial of new driverless bus technology, due to start at the end of the year

Simon McCarthy
Updated January 30 2019 - 4:32pm, first published July 26 2018 - 8:00am
 TRIAL: The state government committed itself to a driverless bus trial at Olympic Park in August 2017.
TRIAL: The state government committed itself to a driverless bus trial at Olympic Park in August 2017.

Armidale Regional Council has committed $100,000 to a three-phase trial of a driverless shuttle service, the first of its kind in regional NSW, which will begin at the University of New England at the end of the year.

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Simon McCarthy

Simon McCarthy

Journalist, Newcastle Herald

Simon McCarthy is a journalist working at the Newcastle Herald in NSW. He writes news and features, and produces video and multimedia, for the Herald and Herald Weekender magazine. He contributes regularly to the Newcastle Herald’s daily Topics column, and is the co-creator and producer of the Toohey’s News podcast. McCarthy has worked as a journalist in regional NSW since 2013. He joined the newsroom of the Newcastle Herald in 2017 from the Northern Daily Leader in Tamworth where he worked from 2015 to 2016.

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