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Lion's City 12 E autonomous (MINGA project)
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MAN Truck & Bus with ADASTEC · self-driving bus or shuttle

Lion's City 12 E autonomous

MINGA project

A standard 12 m MAN electric city bus fitted with lidar, radar and cameras for automated driving in Munich's MINGA project. MAN first worked with Mobileye, then chose ADASTEC as its software partner.

Price
—Price not published
Autonomy
SupervisedHow it runs
Driverless
Not yetSafety driver on board
Fleet
—Not published
Speed
—Not published
Range
—Not published

Why it matters

A prototype vehicle from MAN Truck & Bus with ADASTEC.

Real-world use

Running on Munich route 178 with a safety driver since early September 2026, ahead of rides with selected test users planned for late 2026.

Timeline

First shown
2023-04
Released
Not yet
MINGA project announcement

How it drives

Fleet and city figures move fast; each carries its date and who reported it.

Driverless status
Safety driver on board
Where it runs
Munich (MAN premises, then route 178 Petuelring to Freimanner Hoelzl, 2026)

Public attention

How much public attention Lion's City 12 E autonomous (MINGA project) gets, from open data.

  • No Wikipedia article of its own yet
  • No recent press stories listed yet
  • 1 reported deployment

Measures how much people read and write about a robot, not how good it is. Measured 2026-10-14; same method for every robot. How it is measured

What’s inside

No component details published yet.

Movement
Wheeled base
How it runs
Supervised. Works by itself while a person watches and steps in.

Lineage

Every MAN Truck & Bus with ADASTEC vehicle in order.

  1. Lion's City 12 E autonomous (MINGA project)Lion's City 12 E autonomous (MINGA project)2023Prototype
  2. MAN ATLAS-L4 autonomous truckMAN ATLAS-L4 autonomous truck2024Prototype

Made, sold and where

No production or sales figures published yet.

Price
Not publishedPrice not published
How to get one
No official buying page found

Where it works

1 reported deployment.

Map
  • Pilot

    MVG (Munich transit) with MAN and ADASTEC (MINGA project) · Route 178 (Petuelring to Freimanner Hölzl) · Munich · since 2026-10 · 1 units

    An automated MAN Lion's City 12 E bus with a safety driver began public-road testing on Munich bus route 178, with selected test riders planned from November. 1 bus testing, a second planned (ADASTEC, Oct 2026) ADASTEC

Side by side with its peers

Picked by the same rules for every robot: another maker’s robot that moves the same way, is at the same stage and does at least one of the same main jobs, first shown within two years. Closer size and price rank higher. How we choose

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Sources

Figures come from press coverage. Every link below backs something on this page.

Truck & Bus Builder MAN participating in project to put autonomous bus into operation in Munich by 2025 Sustainable Bus MAN ADASTEC autonomous bus project MINGA Munich Sustainable Bus MAN autonomous Lion's City E hits Munich streets as MINGA project moves towards passenger trials MAN Trial runs for the urban transport of the future

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