[sandworm101]

>> to investigate what the advantages of autonomous transport can be and what employees think of it.

Lets not kid ourselves. The only real "advantage" would have been one less driver earning a paycheck.

I've been on the airside passenger busses at Schipol. They move faster than the average bus. I cannot see this tiny thing ever competing with those pro drivers.

[flemhans]

Availability outside hours where it's not currently feasible to have a driver.

Immunity to strikes, illness, and all those pesky complexities with meat and flesh

[ok_dad]

Complex human flesh is the point of all this stuff we make and do, maybe we shouldn’t put all that meat out of a job for no good economic reason? Busses, trains, ships, etc don’t need to be automated, one or a few professional humans can operate those cheaper and safer than an advanced AI system.

[flemhans]

Just seems like a stupid thing for those humans to have to do, unless they really like driving out of leisure

[SoftTalker]

Yes they are among the fastest buses I've ever been on. They drive like they are on a race track.

[mschuster91]

> Lets not kid ourselves. The only real "advantage" would have been one less driver earning a paycheck.

Given that all modern, developed countries have to fight with a population decrease, this is actually a good thing. We have to prepare for a future where there will be barely anyone left to do relatively low-skill jobs, and the earlier we begin to automate them, the better - otherwise, we'll be in quite the bind in a decade or two, once the last boomers that work high into their 80s just to survive are finally dead.