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not even the first in Sweden, I took a ride on a self driving bus (that had a safety person sitting bored inside) in a suburb of Stockholm https://mitti.se/nyh
by mariefred 7y ago
not even the first in Sweden, I took a ride on a self driving bus (that had a safety person sitting bored inside) in a suburb of Stockholm
https://mitti.se/nyheter/forsvinner-sjalvkorande-bussar/ https://mitti.se/nyheter/forsvinner-sjalvkorande-bussar/
- dagw 7y agoOfftopic, 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 would stop"
- misterhtmlcss 7y agoProbably 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 7y agoDo 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 7y agoI'm almost certain you are right, especially considering this bus operated in an area where there a lot of tech companies.
- rakoo 7y agoWas it on the streets, with no traffic blocking ? I took the same kind of shuttles as part of an experiment, but it was on a very specific path that was shared with pedestrians, not on the road.
- dagw 7y agoThey ran a test in Gothenburg as well at one of the university campuses. And while some of the roads they ran on where technically public car roads, they where small back roads across campus that see very little car traffic.