We took a trip across the Forth Road Bridge ahead of the official launch on Monday.
It looks like a bus, it sounds like a bus... it is a bus. However, this one is self-driving and believed to be the world's first autonomous single-decker passenger service.
Journalists were summoned to a unit near Edinburgh to board the nine-tonne vehicle for a test run ahead of the official launch with passengers on Monday. Paying punters will be able to ride along a 14-mile stretch between Fife and Scotland's capital city.The service will operate on a trial basis until 2025 with a fleet of five Alexander Dennis Enviro200AV vehicles.One of the new buses crossing the Forth Road BridgeHe eventually nervously removed his hands on the famous Forth Road Bridge when the road became straight.
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