It is now time for self driving buses in Hong Kong

[East_coast]

Hong Kong should now begin trial of self driving buses.. perhaps in the New Territories first...

You could be right. HK has just retired the last of it's 1950's tech periscope buses so now is the time to go driverless.

https://www.thestandard.com.hk/secti...-periscope-bus

There are plenty of established driver aids that could be mandated as well as developed country working hours directives. It seems cheaper to lock up drivers that have avoidable accidents.

[shri]

Who would you beat up if the bus was stuck in a traffic jam?

https://www.thestandard.com.hk/break...tion/4/201849/

[sarsi]

Who would you beat up if the bus was stuck in a traffic jam?

https://www.thestandard.com.hk/break...tion/4/201849/

Vandalism.. if no who, then what.

Or you go home and seeth in anger for years until you blow up one day and kill your nagging spouse and put her in a box.

[FrancisX]

No no, apparently we are upgrading to 4 traffic lights soon to help autonomous vehicles integrate with human driven vehicles. The new light will be white. Red still means stop, green still means go, white is to tell the human drivers to just follow the car in front of them. Easy!

https://www.iflscience.com/we-may-be...ing-cars-67622

HK's legions of 79-year old taxi drivers will be loving that.

[sarsi]

Remind me again why we needed self-driving vehicles. What problem was this supposed to solve..

If for safer roads because no driver/associated human error.. fine altho that just means slower public transport. They all gonna be going at the speed of airport shuttles if unmanned :x