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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] 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

if you want to have a reliable driverless system, you're going to have to invent trains... again

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Isnt train+bus just a streetcar?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Normally yes, but Japan also came up with an alternative and rather literal combination of the two, because of course they did:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kn56bMZ9OE8

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I can't check because I'm at work, but is that the Tom Scott video?

At least, I think I remember him doing a video on that thing, maybe it was just someone kind of like him.