Driverless buses launched in Finland

I honestly don't see the point of Self-Driving buses, I mean its not like it takes a 100 people to operate a bus, it only takes one driver, who acts both as a driver as well as a decision-maker i.e. don't pull away yet as people are still busy boarding/approaching etc.

And lastly, if we still have at least 1 person in a train even though it almost self-drives, why wouldn't the same apply to a bus? Who would be liable if it drove over a pedestrian for example?
 
The_MAC said:
I honestly don't see the point of Self-Driving buses, I mean its not like it takes a 100 people to operate a bus, it only takes one driver, who acts both as a driver as well as a decision-maker i.e. don't pull away yet as people are still busy boarding/approaching etc.

And lastly, if we still have at least 1 person in a train even though it almost self-drives, why wouldn't the same apply to a bus? Who would be liable if it drove over a pedestrian for example?
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The point is one less mundane job and likely it will do a heck of a better job than humans. Try and catch a Gautrain bus and you will soon see why driverless with some tech is way way better. Why trains like Gautrain with zero rail crossings have drivers is another conundrum as the decision to leave station is based on door sensors and operator looking out (if they do).

If gautrain was driverless the service could run indefinitely with only consideration being operational efficiency but that is again solved via automating it based on occupancy and rail stores along route.

The northern social democratic states of Europe seem very adamant in pushing employment reform wherein anything possible to be computer controlled is as the cost of employment is high.
 
They're more trams than busses, and they don't need to be perfect drivers - they just need to drive better than humans.

I'd love to ride in one tbh
 
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