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Green vehicles? Yes. Self-driving cars? Maybe someday. Buses without human drivers? No thanks.
We can use collision-avoidance technology to make public transit, already incredibly safe, even safer.
But a computer-driven bus, with an empty seat in the front, is the wrong direction. An empty seat can't spot a lost child, or a passenger in medical distress or report a crime in progress. An empty seat can't distinguish between a police officer waving the bus through a red light in an emergency and some lunatic playing cop. An empty seat can't or provide medical care until the ambulance arrives; can't help a senior citizen board or notice a child being bullied.
Automated buses also will throw hundreds of thousands of people out of work.
The Transport Workers Union of America wants technology to help, not replace, people.
https://www.peoplebeforerobots.org
PAVE coalition launches broad-based public education campaign on automated vehicles
A coalition of industry, non-profit and academic institutions has launched a campaign to inform the public and policymakers about the potential and the reality of advanced vehicle technologies and self-driving vehicles. Partners for Automated Vehicle Education (PAVE) will hold events across the...
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