Whill Personal Electric Vehicles

At the Whill exhibit I started off with a look at their intelligent personal electric vehicle (PEV) that was named a CES 2018 “Best of Innovation” Award winner at the last CES. Then I moved over to the MaaS (Mobility as a Service) demo area. Their goal is to design autonomous personal mobility technologies to safely move people through large and crowded venues such as airports, sports venues, shopping centers, and public sidewalks. For example, at an airport instead of an airline passenger assistant have to show up at a gate to manually push a person in a wheelchair; they're developing self-driving and self-stopping personal electric vehicles (that looks like moving chairs) to provide more independence to passengers who may need additional help. You'll call one to where you are via an app, and then tell it where you want to go. The spokesperson said two airports are already in a test-program and they hope to add more airports as the year progresses. There's a good example in the video in this week's show.

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