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Originally Posted by logicbomb
Still not sold about small driver-less buses in Vancouver. Transit etiquette is so different here from Europe...
I've seen so many instances of elderly/disable people take their time getting on the community shuttles- which is fair. On the contrary, I have seen individuals take their time for unnecessary reasons....good thing we have bus drivers to rush these folks who are holding up the flow of movement on the bus. Also seen instances of a driver calling transit police to escort someone off the bus and call someone to do an immediate cleanup of hazardness needles.
How will this be done with driverless buses? Perhaps this is worth trying in remote areas of Surrey and Pitt Meadows though.
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That's super easy...I am picturing some sort of zapping mechanism for prodding along the stragglers...
But seriously...They could install silent alarm similar to what is in Sky Train to alert the transit police of trouble. Needless and general cleanup could be handled in a similar fashion. With GPS tracking they know where the buses are and can quickly dispatch appropriate personnel. Overall all these issues are present in the Sky Train without drivers and they get handled.
In fact, if you eliminate the drivers and electrify the vehicles you would free a ton of cash to hire more police/attendants to help people and deal with cleaning and security issues.
This is all coming...it's just the matter of time... and I know at first everybody is going to scream the bloody murder...The usual list of concerns that gets raised with every innovation will be raised (security, old people, job loses, losing human contact, etc) and it will all work out just fine. Just look at how politicians are changing their tune on Uber (and their first reaction was as if Black Plague was about to descend on us).