A House of Lords report on self driving vehicles (“Connected and autonomous vehicles: the future”) led the BBC Radio 5 morning news bulletin today (Mar 15, 2017). The advance of this CAV technology over the past five or six years has been phenomenal, and it’s hard to see what could prevent it from dominating the… Continue reading
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Could the self-driving bus save rural public transport?
There is a long-term future for rural bus services in Britain, but it doesn’t involve humans, or at least human drivers. A BBC story today (February 4, 2016) dwells on the risk of services in England and Wales being “wiped out” by council budget cuts. The Campaign for Better Transport said public subsidies to bus… Continue reading →