Starting today, the self-driving shuttle will link the Lyon and Austerlitz train stations in Paris. The GPS-guided vehicles were designed by the French company Easymile.
They can carry up to six seated passengers at a time, are free and will be running seven days a week through early April.
City officials said Paris is suffering an air pollution emergency, and this has led to an urgent search for innovative technologies that meet ordinary needs -- like simply getting around -- in a more environmentally-friendly manner.
Jean-Louis Missika, a Paris deputy mayor, told the Associated Press that self-driving vehicles like the EZ10 "will change the urban landscape in a spectacular fashion" within 20 years.
According to the Easymile's website, the EZ10 will be deployed on an experimental basis between two parks in southern Paris later this year.
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