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Originally Posted by aberdeen5698
Oh, there absolutely will be. The same technology that enables driverless cars will enable driverless buses too. In fact its even easier to automate transit vehicles because they follow a fixed route and so they can take advantage of more comprehensive mapping data.
Since labour is one of the biggest costs of public transit, this has the potential to make it much cheaper, which could increase ridership further.
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And the higher costs of adding the technology to make driverless vehicles safer like lidar have less impact on the cost of a bus than on the cost of a car. New Flyer have had a
Level 4 autonomous bus since 2021.
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