ROTFL! Somewhere there is an AMERICAN shuttle driver standing in an unemployment line so he can buy some food for his family.
The bus was seeking its own kind.
It’s not what the headline suggests. Watching the video, it’s clear the idiot driver of the big city bus sideswiped the smaller shuttle vehicle. It was not a failure of the autonomous driving system.
I’m not an apologist for the self-driving vehicles — I don’t think they are ready for prime time. But, in this case, the human driver of the other vehicle screwed up.
FTA —> “the regular city bus, known as LYMMO, appears to pull in front of them to turn — swiping the side of the shuttle bus in the process.”
Great picture there. “Beep” printed on the windshield of the shuttle and “Be Hopeful” printed on the side of the large size bus. At least the ahos coming up with this stuff have a sense of humor.
Whoever thought it was a good idea to launch a driverless vehicle in FLORIDUH needs to find a new day job.
Well, that’s a lot better than crashing on the first day!! :-)
Typical filthy, negative reporting from the NY Post. The Post ignores the one day when the driverless bus didn’t hit anything, and instead focuses on the day when it crashed.
(I say this hoping the bus company will see my comments, and pay me big money to be their spokesman.)
Bus drivers crash all the time. Remember the goal isn’t perfection (well eventually hopefully maybe) it’s just being better than people.
Pedestrian in critical condition after being hit by Lynx bus in Orlando, police say
https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/police-investigating-crash-in-downtown-orlando
This is the main reason why driverless vehicles will never be a real thing long term. They will make mistakes, people will get hurt, and then these companies will be sued into oblivion and go out of business. It is also why we will never see true drone delivery or pizza delivery, etc in autonomous vehicles. TOO much liability.
Sooo....the takeaway is that these systems are twice as safe as Asian women drivers?