• by Chuck Martin , June 27, 2018

The City of Boston has granted autonomous driving company nuTonomy and its parent company Aptiv permission to operate autonomous vehicles on public roads citywide.

The self-driving cars have been in test mode in the Seaport area of Boston for more than a year. Aptiv, formerly Delphi Automotive, is also running a self-driving test with Lyft in Las Vegas.

“When nuTonomy joined Aptiv in 2017, we were thrilled to be part of a company that shared our forward-thinking vision that autonomous vehicles would change the face of urban transportation,” stated Karl Iagnemma, president of Aptiv Automated Mobility on Demand in a blog post announcing the approval. “We’re also actively working with the City of Boston and partners to conduct demonstrations and educate new audiences on the promise of autonomous vehicle technologies. We’ve taken the initiative to make freely available a valuable dataset that will allow individuals and groups to improve their own driverless vehicle software.”

In addition to Boston, Cambridge-based nuTonomy has been testing autonomous vehicles in Singapore. Like other autonomous driving tests, a driver will also be in the vehicles in Boston.