A Springfield woman was sentenced to 11 months imprisonment after pleading guilty last November in federal court to conspiring to help two inmates escape the Sangamon County Jail.
Commissioners got an overview April 13 of Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority s plans for the demonstration.
Jeremy Reynolds, chairman of the city s public safety committee, wants to make sure that we demonstrate this is safe to ride and I would love to be the first one to ride it in Dunedin. Get in line, said Mayor Julie Ward Bujalski, amid laughter.
Commissioners voted unanimously to approve an agreement for with PSTA for a three-month demonstration of an autonomous vehicle, using federal money and a 50 percent match from PSTA to fund it. The shuttle should be arriving in late May.
Jacob Labutka, a PSTA senior planner, said a similar demonstration along Bayshore Drive in St. Petersburg went well.