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Tallinn Airport lets driverless shuttles run close to airplanes, opening the way to wider airport automation

Euronews Next exclusive: A driverless shuttle now carries aircraft workers and spare parts at Tallinn Airport, with no safety agents on board.

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00:00This is your first autonomous drive inside the airports. That's why you are here today.
00:20When conducting a drive inside the airport, that's whole another story. That's whole another story.
00:28You have so many layers of safety rules that you have to comply.
00:32That's why I like getting the permit that we're actually talking with you at the moment over here inside the
00:38airport.
00:39This is kind of miracle.
01:00The Micah drives on the pre-map route. Inside the pre-map route, there are certain rules that we are
01:07putting in place so the Micah would follow them.
01:09It will see enough ahead to have a decision. As at the moment you can see, we are on a
01:16cross-section looking from one place to another.
01:18And if it's safe to move, it will go. So that vehicle as well, but it's not an hour lane.
01:25No issues. We'll just move on.
01:29And it cannot leave the pre-map area due to some bleach? No, no, no, no, no. That's why we
01:35have the telemonitoring room.
02:01If you look at three vehicles at the same time, see what they're doing. If necessary, give some
02:07minor guidance, then we can match the price of human driven vehicles. And once we can roll out this service
02:15in this way,
02:16I believe that the scaling of autonomous vehicle transportation will be very, very rapid.
02:37We are a small company against major aviation players. So for us to exist, we have to really think out
02:44of the box and be innovative.
02:45So we thought that yes, we will definitely go for it. We will try it. And it has brought us
02:50here.
02:51I think that is one of the key drivers that we really need to think out of the box and
02:56be ahead of others, competitors.
03:13I believe within the next 10 years, the autonomous transportation solutions inside the airport would be a common thing to
03:22see.
03:22But we would not just lose the jobs. We would not take away from the jobs. The people who were
03:27driving inside the airport would just move
03:29onto the next levels or next positions, just overseeing the technology itself. It makes it so much easier.
03:35And it may be perfect.
03:41Thanks for joining us!
03:43Let's see.
03:45My reason to do that is to bring the company in the tank.
03:46What time did we do?
03:46You know that we didn't get the company's full of the tank?
03:47Tell us what you really get when did we go.

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