First autonomous bus in Vilnius, Lithuania



First autonomous bus in Vilnius, Lithuania

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by Arnukas

27 comments
  1. I’m all for sustainability and stuff, but damn, this seems like an extremely inefficient means of public transport. I get that it’s probably experimental, but still.

  2. That might be the single ugliest vehicle I’ve seen in my entire life, was that necessary?

  3. Yeah we had one of those going around a university campus here in Sweden in like 2019. I once saw it panic brake for a magpie. I laughed, and haven’t seen it for years since.

    Good luck.

  4. Mixed operation of autonomous and human driven vehicles will never work. The autonomous vehicles will behave extremely defensive on the road and the human drivers will bully them and taking advantage on them.

  5. Uhmm … Luxembourg called . We had one years ago linking an area for people to take … wait for it … an autonomous funicular.

  6. I like it, despite the memers and haters here. What I’m looking forward to is a retrospective after 3, 6 and 12 months of service. To determine its acceptance, feasibility and such.

  7. Dont know if yall realize it, but we live in the beginning of something big!! Maybe at the end of our lifetimes we look back and remember the first autonomous bus taking its first ride? Or the first autonomous robot serving to humans? Maybe at some point bigger more advanced cities are full of autonomous taxis/vehicles

  8. We also had one like that in local business park/ campus near me for past 5-6 months. They are closing it down soon. It moves like 20kph at most and it never was fully autonomous as it had somebody monitoring its driving all the time. I saw like 60 people total in it and all of those were on the week it started taking passengers. It was supposed to have seating for 12 but it seemed nearly full with 5-6 people standing in it. Due to slow speed it operated short route. So it was easier to just walk that distance rather than wait for that thing to show up.
    All in all money well spend. It was part of program that costed like 900ke and if I remember right this thing costed alone like 120ke. Stupidest shit I have ever seen.

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