Self-driving street sweepers make life easier
Self-driving street sweepers produced by Songjiang-based Autowise.ai
Self-driving street sweepers produced by Songjiang-based Autowise.ai have been used in several Chinese cities this summer, significantly reducing workloads for sanitation workers during the scorching summer heat.
Capable of operating for 16 hours nonstop while traveling 5 kilometers per hour, the machines are equivalent to 20 sanitation workers working together.
In Anzhen Town in the city of Wuxi in neighboring Jiangsu Province, more than 10 Autowise.ai street sweepers have replaced sanitation workers.
In addition to surface streets, the sweepers can also be used in special scenarios like inside tunnels.
The nighttime heat and humidity inside Yangtze River Tunnel in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, was almost unbearable for sanitation workers. Using the sweepers in these conditions has reduced the workload of sanitation workers by half.
The sweepers have also been used in northern Hebei Province at Tangshan Harbor and the Xinzheng airport in the city of Zhengzhou, Henan Province, as well as the Middle-Ring Elevated Road in Shanghai.
Autowise.ai developed the world's first self-driving street sweeper in 2018. About 200 of the company's self-driving vehicles have logged 1.5 million hours of operations in more than 20 cities around the world.
