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Are We Ready For Driverless Buses? (www.ibtimes.co.uk)

submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Driverless buses are coming to UK roads, with Milton Keynes and Sunderland leading the charge.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I'm actually going to disagree a bit here and say, I think it somewhat makes sense.

Buses have specific routes, and can be trained to perfect those. Not all routes will be suitable, but some will.

Hope they make a public database for these routes, and are able to use the self driving data to learn from it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Agreed - in my area busses drive on dedicated bus routes with no other vehicles. Realistically, they should be trollies. There's no reason that it couldn't be automated.