Originally Posted by
tandempower
It doesn't make sense that there aren't more fixed-route trials, especially with vehicles like buses, which often have driver shortages and schedule gaps during off hours.
Self-driving technology on fixed-route buses would basically just be like putting the bus on rails. You would need to hire a brake person to watch the road for safety, but the bus would basically just steer itself through the route as if it was on rails.
Such simple applications of self-driving technology are ignored in favor of all the fancy bells and whistles of lane-changing and the like. More fixed-route rail vehicles would be good and buses could serve that purpose using self-driving systems.
Simple...??? Yes It would be "simple" if it was a track system, everyone would know where the vehicle is headed, where the
vehicle is going and how fast.... and so on, but, as an autonomous vehicle, it can go anywhere.... That seems to be the "problem" at present, which will get solved eventually ...
