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© 2019 AFPHaneda airport tests driverless bus
By Toshifumi Kitamura TOKYO©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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Aly Rustom
The journey of a 1000 miles begins with a single step. The sooner we introduce driverless technology, the better.
papigiulio
I'm not against driver-less buses but a few questions. Why only 10 people?? How long will the bus take over each trip? The thing is, if the bus follows a preset path/route, i'm sure it will drive extra slowly since its a.i. and stop completely at every turn, while a human bus driver can usually somewhat anticipate what happen in traffic and thus speed things up. Again, not being negative but I don't see any merits here at the moment.
Scrote
There shouldn't be many pedestrians wandering around the airside part of an airport, although this is Japan so maybe it wouldn't be that surprising.
JeffLee
That's because this appears to be just another vanity, show off effort aimed at a small small number of short term visitors for the Olympics, rather than a serious effort to spend the money to improve residents' lives.
Like cooling the streets in summer or cleaning Odaiba. Why not do it for us taxpayers who actually live here all the time?
Dango bong
It's a nice thought until one hits a pedestrian or gets a flat tire
Ah_so
Great news. In the future public transport will be safer and cheaper.
This is a test, not the long-term solution.
Alex Einz
I agree with Jeff there, what a useless test, basically funding waste...and yea i never get the abundance of seats on these buses ... surely majority of people can stand the 3 min journey .
Btw, being automated does absolutely nothing for the travel time, tarmac bus already travel best possible route in an airport ( and if such not available, the airport has bigger issues to solve )
Hallowed
Jeez such negativity. This is a no brainer as the bus would travel along controlled and predictable routes with no variable traffic conditions and would save a huge amount of human effort. Calm down
darknuts
That's not the least bit scary.
JeffLee
Last time I was in a tarmac bus in Japan, it was narrow with high-backed seats and thus completely unsuited for the job.
Yeah, that sounds worthwhile, only 20 or 30 trips needed per flight.