Some people have theorized that self-driving cars and ride-hailing apps will lead to the end of public transport, but really, you still can't beat the efficiency of cramming a load of people into a single bus. Combine that with autonomous driving tech and you might have a whole new sort of public transport. At least, that's what Mercedes-Benz thinks, and its semi-autonomous Future Bus program has just passed a major milestone: navigating a route of more than 20 kilometers.
Now, this is nothing compared to the million-plus kilometers traveled by Google's self-driving cars, but every journey starts with single step (or rotation of the wheel). The Future Bus followed a route from Amsterdam's Schiphol airport to the town of Haarlem, a...
via The Verge
