Easymile Automated Bus

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https://twitter.com/CouncilSCC/status/940490848717873152

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https://events.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au/Event?eventID=13789

Details

Join us to go #Driverless in #Mooloolaba this week.

Mooloolaba is proud to be the first South East Queensland location to host free public demonstration trips for visitors and residents on the Sunshine Coast.

Trips will run daily from 14 to 16 December. Join us to experience this sustainable, smart transport option for the future yourself.

    No booking required just turn up and ride.
    Ramp access is available for disabled passengers or parents with strollers.
    Due to State Govt regulations, the road will be closed to all other traffic and a driver will be present in the driver's seat of the vehicle.

For more information visit the Smart City Milestone page on the council website.

Time
Sessions will run from approximately 10.00 am to 3.00 pm depending on demand.

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https://twitter.com/SEQMayors/status/940698841442947072

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https://twitter.com/SEQMayors/status/940718284470550528

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https://twitter.com/7NewsBrisbane/status/940832885543710720

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https://twitter.com/7NewsSC/status/940863642664390657

[Stillwater]

There was a standby driver on board for the media launch 'just in case' and to get the vehicle around roundabouts.  Apart from that, it was fine operating in a straight line.

[Gazza]

So what is impressive about a automatic vehicle the only goes in a straight line by itself?

[techblitz]

^ geez....permaneg much??

aiming to give locals a taste of the future

its just a sample....ever hear of the term 'you have to start at the bottom and work your way up'??
small steps big results in the end.....
Two words >> 'Machine Learning'.
As long as algorithms can be trained and as long as a thing called computer vision exists.......cars/buses WILL be driverless on ALL types of roads/traffic.....guaranteed.
The only reason 'self driving' is so basic at the moment is because the industry is limited by computer processing power to manage the large datasets required for the machines to learn......quantum computing will put an end to that.
When it reaches its zenith the only threats would be humans manually driving cars and of course hackers(which you will never get rid of).

[Gazza]

No, not at all.

There are already driverless cars that steer etc.


If the only thing this does by itself is go straight, then ive already been in a 2017 Mazda cx5 which already has that feature in the Australian market and can happily follow and stay in it's lane.

So they are barely showing off where the tech is already at

I didn't need your braindump about the computing requirements of driverless cars btw cheers.