It took me a while out work out that ‘Autonomous Technology’ means that the bus can navigate its way around without the need for a driver.
Working within a fenced area with a van parked fairly awkwardly it quite happily navigated its way round the circuit without fuss or hesitation.
It looks like an ordinary bus but there are number of sensors and ‘black boxes’ (painted dark blue) particularly at the front.
According to one of the team with the bus. The technology is particularly useful in the depot where at night, the bus can park itself up without the occasional scratch or scrape it might acquire with a human driver.
I think that we are a still long way from regularly catching a driverless bus to the shops but I think that it is coming.
More tomorrow!
‘Coach & Bus UK19’ ‘Stagecoach Pioneering Autonomous Technology’.
Alexander Dennis Ltd. (ADL) E20D / ‘ADL’ Enviro 200MMC /1
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
‘Coach & Bus UK19’ ‘Stagecoach Pioneering Autonomous Technology’.
Alexander Dennis Ltd. (ADL) E20D / ‘ADL’ Enviro 200MMC /2
‘Coach & Bus UK19’ ‘Stagecoach Pioneering Autonomous Technology’.
Alexander Dennis Ltd. (ADL) E20D / ‘ADL’ Enviro 200MMC /3
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
‘Coach & Bus UK19’ ‘Stagecoach Pioneering Autonomous Technology’.
Alexander Dennis Ltd. (ADL) E20D / ‘ADL’ Enviro 200MMC /4
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
Detail of the front panel showing some of the control sensors etc.
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
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