Saturday, January 21, 2023

Robot Bus


The BBC thinks this is a great story (so do I but in a different way). A bus crosses the Forth Bridge with no driver but with some robotic controls and sensors that are standard in most Teslas. So it's managed to navigate over the bridge on a regulated dual carriageway with very little other traffic except maybe the odd bus or taxi that's going in the same direction. It's not exactly a moonshot is it? 

This is where we are, bus laden with 5 year old technology systems and "thrill seeking" volunteer passengers drives in a straight line and doesn't crash. Nobody dies and now we're not quite sure what to do with the bus. Perhaps the Fife Bus Museum up in Lathalmond have a bit of space.

Don't forget: First* they came for our checkout cashiers, then they came for our petrol pump attendants, then our train drivers, now our bus drivers. Next it'll be airline pilots I presume.

*Probably not an accurate sequence of events.

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