On the road in San Francisco: A bus with no driver and no steering wheel
'In a test for reporters, one bus cruised a block-long circuit so consistently that it created a dirt track on the tarmac'
07 March 2017 - 08:48
A pair of $250,000 autonomous buses began driving around an empty San Francisco Bay Area parking lot on Monday, preparing to move onto a local public road in California's first pilot program for a self-driving vehicle without steering wheel or human operator. California and other states are weighing the opportunities of becoming a hub of testing a technology that is seen as the future of transportation and the risks from giving up active control of a large, potentially dangerous vehicle.
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