Perhaps the future has arrived.
A driverless bus will be roaming the streets of D.C. The bus is named Olli.
You can meet Olli here.Olli is a 12-passenger driverless bus, designed by Local Motors, that, in theory, you will one day be able to summon with an app.
If this future arrives and driverless vehicles are eventually permitted to shuttle passengers around,
the Olli app will function similar to the Uber or Lyft apps, but the vehicle will be nothing like the Uber and Lyft cars you’re used to riding in.
For starters, there’s the whole “no driver” thing, which isn’t exactly true. No, there’s
nobody physically sitting at the front of the vehicle steering. Instead, there is a person
monitoring the bus’ travels remotely, just in case. But essentially, the bus is driverless.
Then there are the cameras. The entire bus is outfitted in 360-degree cameras,
eliminating the notion of a blind spot. The design should enable virtually flawless driving that never results in accidents,
if theory turns to practice. As Olli says, we humans “aren’t that great at this driving thing.”
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http://washington.cbslocal.com/2016/06/18/driverless-bus-to-begin-frequenting-d-c-streets/
