On Friday, June 12, safe-speed autonomous mobility company Venti Technologies announced that it successfully deployed two autonomous SUVs at a school at Nanning City, the capital of Guangxi Province, China.

The product of SAIC-GM-Wuling Automobile (SGMW), the joint venture formed by Chinese automakers SAIC and Wuling, along with GM, the SUVs provide shuttle transportation services to students and visitors. They are booked via a hailing app for destinations along a 9-station loop, and run on a 3K loop in opposite directions.

Capable of operating at a maximum speed of 15 kilometers per hour, the SUVs have been equipped with Venti Technologies’ flexible, algorithmic-based autonomous vehicle technology. Blind spots are eliminated as a result of the company’s sensor configuration, which is also capable of operating with mixed traffic and other road users such as cars, scooters and pedestrians. The vehicles can also overtake lower speed vehicles while navigating incoming vehicles from the other direction.

“The successful autonomous SUV deployment is a key milestone for Venti and showcases the breadth of opportunities for our technology,” says Xinxin Du, founder and CTO.

“Passenger vehicles require very nimble and precise operations. We are delighted to be moving forward with SGMW, a major mass volume producer of cars, microvans and other vehicles in China.”

Through Deep Learning and Model Predictive Control algorithms, Venti’s autonomous mobility platform surpasses slow, inflexible situation-based-coded systems. Vehicles equipped with Venti’s technology map as they go, and using algorithms that use abstract information constructs, they also adapt to complex environments and challenging situations.

Venti autonomous vehicles are capable of seeing small obstacles such as a 12-ounce can on the road, and around corners. The AVs do not need lane markers or beacons, can drive forwards and backwards, can do three- and five-point-turns and have state-of-the-art rain operation.

By combining the analyses to enable AVs to drive safely and reliably in complex environments, Venti’s system is the first in the world to improve both obstacle detection and vector velocity estimation accuracy, the company says.