Boston and nuTonomy to test self-driving car by year-end

The City of Boston is moving forward with plans to study driverless cars, launching a program with a startup spun out of MIT to begin testing on public roads by the end of the year.

City Hall is working with Cambridge-based nuTonomy Inc. to put a self-driving car through its paces on the streets of the Raymond L. Flynn Marine Park in South Boston. The park offers about three miles of roadways in a contained space that is nonetheless open to the public and will require the car to navigate amid pedestrians, cars, bikes, and the MBTA’s Silver Line.

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