Driverless buses are coming to UK roads, with Milton Keynes and Sunderland leading the charge.

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if you want to have a reliable driverless system, you’re going to have to invent trains… again

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Isnt train+bus just a streetcar?

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Normally yes, but Japan also came up with an alternative and rather literal combination of the two, because of course they did:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kn56bMZ9OE8

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I can’t check because I’m at work, but is that the Tom Scott video?

At least, I think I remember him doing a video on that thing, maybe it was just someone kind of like him.

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