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Offtopic, but my favorite line of the article: "We where very surprised to see how many people intentionally jumped in front of the moving buses to see if they

• misterhtmlcss 8y ago
  Probably drivers from the local transit union. I've seen/read about (union) activists doing some crazy things and it wouldn't surprise me that someone or some people would try to show with their life that this is a bad idea and therefore shouldn't replace a human driven system.
  • elygre 8y ago
    Do you have any data to back the assertion that this was about unions? My gut says that it’s more probable that it was the hacker news crowd trying to test the technology, but I have to admit to have absolutely no data to support this assertion, either.
    • dagw 8y ago
      I'm almost certain you are right, especially considering this bus operated in an area where there a lot of tech companies.