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Driving a bus is a tactically complicated job. The rules of the road in a major city are already a little soft. They are doubly so for buses. They park where
by jnwatson 4y ago
Driving a bus is a tactically complicated job. The rules of the road in a major city are already a little soft. They are doubly so for buses. They park where they must, and sometimes use their size to bully their way in.
City buses will be the last to go automated.
- lnsru 4y agoI see often dedicated bus lanes around. And sometimes dedicated traffic lights for them. It’s difficult job, but that automatically brings the need for automation. I don’t know much people who want this low pay extremely high stress job. Some blue collar workers went for subway train driver’s career. It’s much easier.
- bombcar 4y agoThat is (or can be) what's called bus rapid transit - basically build a train line but use busses. They could probably be significantly automated, but I don't know that the cost would be worth it, as even the best ones still interact with normal traffic at times.
- whimsicalism 4y ago> Some blue collar workers went for subway train driver’s career. It’s much easier. Shouldn't that be automated first?
- lnsru 4y agoI think it’s already automated when the line planing was good. However some places like Munich have terrible delays and all the strange things not allowing getting on time by subway.