Turing Drive · self-driving bus or shuttle
Turing Drive Xinyi Road autonomous bus
An electric bus run by Taiwanese startup Turing Drive with lidar, cameras, radar and live traffic-light data from roadside units. It was capped at 20 km/h and carried a driver and an observer.
- Price
- —trial project; not sold
- Autonomy
- SupervisedHow it runs
- Driverless
- Not yetSafety driver on board
- Fleet
- —Not published
- Speed
- 20.0 km/hFaster than 0%
- Range
- —Not published
Why it matters
Taipei's first self-driving bus trial in a city-centre bus lane (2020).
Real-world use
Ran overnight (about 00:30-02:30) on a 12.3 km Xinyi Road bus lane in Taipei, without passengers from May 2020 and with passengers from October 2020 to February 2021.
Maker
Turing DriveCompanyHow 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
- Xinyi Road bus lane, Taipei (May 2020 to Feb 2021)
How it stacks up
Against other buses & shuttles that publish the figure. Pick a measure.
Turing Drive Xinyi Road autonomous bus is faster than 0% of the 13 other buses & shuttles that publish a speed. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Not published by the maker: height, weight, payload, joints, battery, price.
Public attention
A historic robot: no longer sold or in use, so it is not ranked against current vehicles.
- No Wikipedia article of its own yet
- No recent press stories listed yet
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.
From the maker
Turing Drive Xinyi Road autonomous bus is the only vehicle from Turing Drive in the atlas.
Made, sold and where
No production or sales figures published yet.
- Price
- Not publishedtrial project; not sold
- How to get one
- No official buying page found
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
| Measure | Turing Drive Xinyi Road autonomous busTuring Drive |  Xiaoyu (first generation)Yutong BusSame job: public transit · Both on wheels · Both past robots |  ApolongBaidu Apollo with King Long (Xiamen King Long United Automotive)Same job: public transit · Both on wheels · Both past robots | No public photo yetWe only show photos we're allowed to useAlphaba smart busShenzhen Haylion Technologies with Shenzhen Bus GroupSame job: public transit · Both on wheels · Both past robots |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First shown | 2020-05 | 2019 | 2018-07-04 | 2017-12-02 |
| Status | Retired | Retired | Discontinued | Retired |
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| Weight | — | — | — | — |
| Joints | — | — | — | — |
| Speed | 20 km/h | — | — | 40 km/h |
| Payload | — | — | — | — |
| Battery | — | — | — | — |
| Price | — | — | — | — |
Sources
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