Valerie
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sounds like there is a flaw in the program because the driverless bus did not have the option to go in reverse to avoid the accident.
the fault was with another vehicle which the driverless bus sensed and stopped then stayed still like a sitting duck...
So a bus, that is stopped, is hit by a truck. And you blame the bus?
The driver was written up for illegal backing, according to reports.
“The shuttle did what it was supposed to do, in that its sensors registered the truck and the shuttle stopped to avoid the accident,” the City of Las Vegas said in a statement to KSNY. “Had the truck had the same sensing equipment that the shuttle has the accident would have been avoided.”
The city added it will continue operating the buses through Las Vegas’ downtown area over the next year.
Maurice Bell, an executive at Keolis Transit America, which helps operate the smart buses, said the accident is a bellwether as the bus goes through tests.
“That’s probably the positive point of all this,” he told the Review-Journal, “is that we have extensive data to be able to tell us what occurred and what we could do in the future to improve upon.”