06-04-2020 21:33 via theverge.com

Supervised self-driving shuttles are moving COVID-19 tests in Florida

Autonomous shuttles are being used to move COVID-19 tests from a Jacksonville, Florida testing site to a nearby Mayo Clinic processing location, in what the medical nonprofit is calling a “first” for the US. But as is often the case with autonomous vehicle pilot programs, there’s a catch: during each run made to and from the clinic, the self-driving shuttles are being trailed by an SUV driven by a human.The SUV can be spotted in a video released by the Mayo Clinic (seen above),
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