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SELF-DRIVING VEHICLES are still a long way from appearing on our roads, but tests are underway.
The city of Helsinki, Finland, is testing out a pair of self-driving buses as part of a month-long pilot.
The EZ10 Robot Shuttle will mix with regular traffic and can transport up to ten people at a time. However, it only has a top speed of 9.6 kmh.
The pilot is one of the first in the world as Finnish laws don’t require vehicles on the road to have a driver, according to Finnish news outlet Uutiset.
The pilot will continue until mid-September, but if it’s is successful, these buses could be used to complement existing public transport services in the future.
Finland has already tested out self-driving buses before. The neighbouring city of Vantaa used the same buses during a housing fair last year, but they didn’t mix with regular traffic.
The maker of these buses, French company EasyMile, is also testing them out in Tokyo, Japan as well as other places like parks and universities.
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Hopefully there are no nuclear power plants nearby.
More natural global warming
@Gerard Heery: Large Volcanic eruptions cool the planet, Ash and in particular Sulphur Dioxide reflect the Sun’s heat, and anyway human activity emits 120 times more CO2 than all the world’s volcanos combined (24 billion v 0.2 billon).
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/earthtalks-volcanoes-or-humans/
@David Jordan: great the humans will stop a ice age happening
Is there more active volcanos recently? Im watching a youtube channel by bushcraft bear who does daily videos from la palma. Fascinating stuff and its getting pretty bad there.
@Stephen Nix: Careful what you watch
@Splat: its not a conspiracy channel or a news channel. Its someone who lives on the island doing daily reports.
Maybe Aso needs a giant but t plug…
The Earth is angry at the way it’s being abused.
The earth made humans to protect it from asteroids or comets in the future and if it can’t stop them invent tech to colonise other planets … evolution my friend
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