Bus of Future * USA - Rolled out for first test drive
Berkeley,CAL,USA -The Mercury News/Contra Costa Times, by Denis Cuff -5 Sept 2008: -- California's dream of using self-steering buses to fight traffic congestion made headway in San Leandro on Friday when UC Berkeley researchers conducted their first test on a public street of a bus guided by magnets... A driver removed his hands from the wheel of the moving bus on East 14th Street to signal that a computer had taken over, steering in response to cues from the tiny magnets, which were embedded in the pavement... With the driver controlling speed but not direction, the 60-foot-long bus cruised in a straight line until pulling over to a bus stop with uncanny accuracy — leaving a gap of only a half-inch between the bus and the curb... (Photo by Laura A. Oda/The Oakland Tribune - Researchers at California Partners for Advanced Transit(PATH) at UC Berkeley demonstrated a 60-foot AC Transit bus steered, not by a driver, but by a magnetic guidance system on E. 14th St. in San Leandro between 138th Ave. and 150th Ave. on Friday morning Sept. 5th, 2008. Reaearch Engineer, Han-Shue Tan, Ph.D. shows where the magnets are embedded in the road by rolling another magnet above the road in front of the bus) Labels: Bus of Future
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