Expert: Important for Singapore to have range of data

Singapore's plan to put autonomous vehicles (AVs) on the roads here was praised by global robotics expert Ayanna Howard, who raised questions about the way AV tests are currently conducted overseas. A former Nasa researcher named by Forbes magazine as one of the top 50 women in tech in the United States, Dr Howard also said there is a need to consider the human factor in testing AVs. "A lot of times, with self-driving cars, the issue is that other cars are driven by humans. Most humans don't always follow traffic rules exactly. In a test done in California, drivers would stop, then go, because they wanted to see what the self-driving car would do," said the 47-year-old professor and chair of interactive computing at Georgia Tech in the US.