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.”
Yeah, watched the video ... bus drivers act like they are the most important vehicles on the road and get quite pissy when some other vehicle is in the bus loading zone. He just did what he always does and cut off the autonomous bus and since he did not fully get in front of it the autonomous bus did not sense it in time to stop. My guess is that bus driver is gonna be unemployed soon and new regs will come out for bus drivers that you cannot cut in front of autonomous vehicles.
The SWAN shuttle was stopped when the bus moved intro the lane. The shuttle began moving and ran into the side of the bus. A human driver would have stayed stationary with a bus moving into the lane ahead. The Autonomous shuttle was at fault for hitting the bus.
I live in the Orlando area. The local city and county bus drivers are hot-footed maniacs.