A company called Coast Autonomous has developed a self-driving vehicle that could ease traffic woes in places such as New York.

The company demonstrated its concept in Times Square on July 17.

“Driverless vehicles, once they get fully deployed, are gonna be a lower coast because you don’t have the expense of a driver,” explains Rick Baker, head of urban development for Coast Autonomous, via CBS New York.

Coast Autonomous’ vehicles are considered ideal for short distance shuttle trips at a variety of locations including airports, college campuses, theme parks and low speed, highly congested areas in New York City.

“We see during peak hours this could run on a fixed route and on off-peak hours, you call it from an app and it goes point-to-point as an on demand service,” says Adrian Sussman, managing director of Coast Autonomous.

Coast Autonomous believes that its vehicles can lower the amount of cars on the street and ease gridlock. Thus far, though, New York City’s Department of Transportation has not had any official contact with Coast Autonomous.

Coast Autonomous’ vehicle can hold up to 12 people at a time, and moves at a maximum speed of 20 miles per hour. The vehicle is equipped with sensors that use radar to detect the presence of pedestrians in crosswalks and traffic around it.

“When it sees an obstruction on the road it sends a signal for the vehicle to stop,” Baker says.

Coast Autonomous hopes to bring its vehicles to the United States next year.