MEGACITIES, traffic gridlock, environmental problems — the hot topics are the same in every country, including SA. Under these circumstances, people’s need for mobility to attend work and school and take recreation cannot be met by private transport alone, hence the need for properly integrated public transport solutions.Generally this means buses, especially when used as a complete, individually co-ordinated transport system for urban environments such as the latest wave of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) systems.Now Daimler has unveiled what it thinks urban public transport will look like in the future in the form of its semi-automated city bus with CityPilot. Connectivity plus camera and radar systems with data fusion are catapulting the city bus into the future. Mercedes-Benz is showing this technology with its Future Bus with CityPilot.The technology of the CityPilot in the bus is based on that of the autonomously driving Mercedes-Benz Actros truck with Highway Pilot presented two year...
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