Autonomy 'not the end' for drivers

摘要

Autonomous vehicles will not end Stagecoach's employment of bus drivers, despite the group conducting the UK's first trials of autonomously driven full-size single-deckers. It is two months into trials of a prototype installation of autonomous driving technology in an 11.5m Alexander Dennis Enviro200 test bed development vehicle at its Sharston depot in south Manchester. Next year Stagecoach East Scotiand will operate five similar vehicles in public service every 20min between Fenytoll park-&-ride in Fife and Edinburgh Park train and tram interchange in the western suburbs of the Scottish capital. Much of that corridor has segregated bus lanes, including the 1964 Forth Road Bridge.