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On a separated, fixed guideway it's not too difficult to have an autonomous systems. Airports, metros, and even "personal people movers" like in Morgantown all
by jimktrains2 10y ago
On a separated, fixed guideway it's not too difficult to have an autonomous systems. Airports, metros, and even "personal people movers" like in Morgantown all work without a driver on board. As you said, moving to the chaos that is a street is a different story.
- Animats 10y agoThere are getting to be many little systems of slow autonomous short buses.[1] These will probably be all over campuses big enough to have shuttle buses soon. This may be the first way autonomous driving is deployed. Little buses go to destinations nearby, or take you to a station for larger and faster transit. Most trips would be very short, 1 km or so. The big advantage of driverless is that many little buses don't cost more per seat than a few big ones. A city bus costs $300K to $500K for a 50-seat bus. If somebody can build an 8 passenger autonomous bus for $75K, that's a win all by itself. [1] http://gizmodo.com/the-uss-first-autonomous-buses-will-drive-around-a-cali-1734989938 http://gizmodo.com/the-uss-first-autonomous-buses-will-drive...