Driverless transport for Prince Charles on Abu Dhabi visit

Britain’s Prince Charles, who is on a state visit to Abu Dhabi, was given a tour of Masdar City, where he was given an insight into Masdar’s growing portfolio of clean energy projects across the globe. He arrived in Masdar City via 2GetThere’s personal rapid transit (PRT) driverless vehicle.
November 10, 2016 Read time: 1 min

Britain’s Prince Charles, who is on a state visit to Abu Dhabi, was given a tour of Masdar City, where he was given an insight into Masdar’s growing portfolio of clean energy projects across the globe. He arrived in Masdar City via 8172 2GetThere’s personal rapid transit (PRT) driverless vehicle.

On 28 November the PRT system will be entering its seventh year of operation. 2GetThere is expecting to transport the two millionth passenger before then. Prince Charles was actually passenger number 1,988,933.

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