> Waymo could make a bus too anyway
Oh hell no. Cars are bad enough from the damage they can cause by kinetic energy, but a bus? Especially a bus where people don't wear seatbelts or, worse, are standing?
Oh hell no. Cars are bad enough from the damage they can cause by kinetic energy, but a bus? Especially a bus where people don't wear seatbelts or, worse, are standing?
I just want to point out that the safety record of public transit drivers is typically impeccable. There is no safer vehicle out on the roads except buses and trains. I have been a rider of public transit for 50 years, minus about a decade when I owned a car, and in 3 different major cities, and literally I've never been aboard a bus that hit another vehicle, hit any obstacle, or had a reportable accident. Literally never happened. (I was aboard a light rail train that collided with an SUV, but that's a whole other ballgame.)
I've never felt unsafe without a seat belt on board a bus. Seat belts in cars may be a bit of a panacea, but I challenge you to find any metropolitan area where the buses have accidents, much less injury accidents, on a weekly basis.