South Korea: Self-driving night buses on streets of Seoul | BBC News 

south korea resident for a month now. The country is so well developed and clean and organised. I hope my home country can take notes and develop better infrastructure.

it doesn't have to be perfect, just better than the average driver

In Seoul City, especially the city center, they have bus only lane on the road for 20 years. That makes more easier to running self-driving bus than the any other countries.

That idiot in the end saying "self driving is science fiction which will never be possible" are exactly those who adopted the cellphone, then smartphone at the last moment, ridiculed by their friends and colleagues.

in Seoul, buses have their own lanes in the middle. Look at @3:00.

Korea is the future. My dream destination

In US a bus running all the night would be full of homeless people sleeping inside.

I have lived in Korea for 11 years and know very well. They have the best quality of life that is convenient, safe, scientific and non-boring. They are smarter, more polite, and cleaner than the Chinese.😂 They live in a different world in every way! Learning is the way to improve!

I lived in a satellite city for years and the trains were ALWAYS on time there.. incomparable to the UK.

I'm in South Korea as we speak and these buses really are amazing

👍south Korea 🇰🇷 ❤️

South Korean technology is amazing

That guy in the end about how "self driving is science fiction which will never be possible" reminds me of some "experts" saying the same thing just a couple of years ago about how AI would never be able to grasp the intricacies of human language

Only trying to downplay others' advancement and achievements while achieving nothing on their own or searching excuses for not trying anything. Even though the main purpose is to smear the driveless night bus, they can't provide any evidence except the one time bumpy stop which also happen numerous times in regular driving as well. Shame on BBC.

Can't believe Mila moved to Seoul to become a Victorian factory worker

This is what we need in London. Fed up with the train,tube and bus strikes .

It says it's MIDNIGHT and look how lively it is.

Mila looking like she's on her way home from her job as a chimney sweep.

The adaptability and smartness of South Korean are the best in the world.🎉🎉

The guy at the end lol, just like in school, when we have to debate against a topic that we agree on just cause teacher put you for the 'against' team.

Poor bus driver sat there thinking my days are numbered! 🎉

May never be solved? Man will never fly

Driverless busses might be new but driverless subway trains have been around for at least 25 years.

1:57 its Mila from "Hiding In My Room" channel! 😮

They seem to be doing it the right way. it’ll be a while until it’s completely anonymous but a driver on a bus over saying thing seems to be the right way to approach

MILA DANIEL NEEDS YOU BACK!!! MIIILLLLAAAAA!!!

So sad that the country directly to the north of them is still living in the early 1900s

im sure that driver's gonna be so happy when this tech becomes perfect.

In London, normal bus drivers don't stop for you and wizz past you at times. 😂😂😂

"that may never ever be solved" that's a bold statement to make. AI went from generating Will Smith eating spaghetti to almost true to life movie scenes, with in a year. I'm sure 2~3 years ago, he would've also said AI can never replace real actors.

Finally, Korean day-shift bus drivers don't have to also work a night-shift everyday as well.

I think a driverless bus on a dedicated BRT-like road network separate from public roads would work potentially sooner.

I like how the bald skeptic is so confident of his opinion.

Milaaaaaaa come back lol

1:55 Mila!! HIMR!!

May never be solved? Never say never.

Description suits as 'Assisted Self-Driving' than 'Driverless'

that currie guy has his head so far up himself he can't see light driverless is clearly the future

Mila has become more famous than Daniel.

I thought what the heck is this guy saying and then I saw professor of public transport. Quite an insightful take on machine learning models’ future capabilities on driving, thanks BBC.

There is a driver in the bus. The heading is misleading. It should be driver monitored self driving night bus

There are 1.3 million people dying annually in car accidents. Human drivers are just too dangerous

Its Mila from Hiding In My Room Oh my god hahah

1:55 mila :O

Mila looks like an extra from the musical Oliver!

This is why South Korea is the most technologically advanced nation in the world.

1:55 Mila, 30 years old and significant weight gain since 2020 on the HIMR channel.

Would it have been cheaper and safer to construct an autonomous light rail or trolley? Just wondering...

Amazing Korea ❤

"There's been a couple of moments where he's had to take the wheel, but by and large..."

1:05 that's how ordinary bus drivers drive here in India.

I can see this working in a society like south korea but in the uk i dont see it ever working, who deploys the ramp for wheelchair users?

Thanks

2:18 South Korea is so advanced. They already have hoverboards !

I went in this bus recently. It was smooth but I still don’t think it’s the way forward. Too many obstacles in the road. Now they have 2 routes as autonomous in Seoul…

Finally some real news from BBC 😂

Korea lives in 3 steps more forward than other countries ❤‍🔥

“On the street we have dogs, children, bikes. Technology may never sort that out” Yeah because human drivers never hit any of those when they run into the road!? My cousin is currently in hospital RIGHT NOW with a broken pelvis, damaged spine, cracked skull and brain damage! Because some stupid woman was over taking a school bus which was dropping kids off and she was speeding! If her car was autonomous, it probably wouldn’t have overtaken the school bus, if it did though it would have done it at a safe speed and my cousin wouldn’t have life changing injuries! The idiocy of people who use these as examples of why we can’t use self driving technology is unbelievable, there are thousands, if not millions of examples from across the globe of bad drivers doing stupid things behind the wheel of a car and causing grievous harm to others could all be avoided. Yes there will still be accidents with self driving cars, but they will be more because of human error than the fault of the technology. One way to improve these kinds of odds is to develop what I’d call “foresight”, this would be a second, lower powered software the would use some the self driving cars sensors when parked of the side of a road to monitor pedestrians movements to alert driving cars if someone is showing signs of walking into the road from between cars. Perhaps it could even activate some of the cars lights to act as a crossing beacon to highlight when someone is walking between the cars towards the road and share its sensor data with oncoming traffic, extending the driving cars sensor data into the blind spots.

Yes!! Finally a bus that's not emotional and randomly skips stops and ignores back doors 😂

There have also been this cool thing called rails so you dont have to steer the bus! Other then that trams exist, it is still cool, and less expensive then installing new systems

It should be themed like the Tranzit robot of cod zombies

Ilmenau is a small city in Germany. They are experimenting with such buses (day & night) from quite some time now. So nothing new!

In the UK we should start with driverless trains. Easily achievable and would allow no strikes and more services throughout the whole 24 hours in a day

There's so many things making this impossible.

In SK they build self driving buses while in the UK we celebrate the rescue of some cat from a tree

Lmao😂 the guy saying at the end that “self driving is science fiction” is so stupid 😂 made me laugh so hard😂

Well, this not the first self-driving bus in the world, maybe this is the first one BBC knows. This only shows your ignorance. There were self-driving buses running in Guangzhou, China a few years ago.

Ridicolous conclusion on the fact that autonomous driving MAY NEVER happen because of the presence of dogs...

Apparently, there's a designated bus lane, so it should work just fine at low speeds. But it's definitely imperfect. For example, what happens in case of an accident, which isn't in the bus' control? Then it has to be able to react quickly.

We have real self driving busses in the netherlands for atleast a decade....

It is not perfect yet. But they are making an effort to collect the data and improve the autonomous driving.

“We won’t need anyone operating this bus” the bus driver sitting there listening to this 😐

OMG it's Mila 🤣🤣 Danny will treat you right baby girl, just please please give him another chance! ❤

can get 24/7 bus every 5 minit

Pretty sure it's not the first in the world. There's already self-driving bus routes in Scotland, Guangzhou and San Francisco.

It doesn't surprise me. I was in SK a few weeks ago and the 5G connectivity was incredibly fast.

Why did the BBC interview a public transport expert instead of an AI expert for their prediction on autonomy? Graham's opinion will age like milk.

It's not perfect yet but improving safety day by day

imagine a future when all public transportation are self driven including bus just imagine if there is a glitch or hack public transportation will be crippled coz nobody knows how to drive bus anymore

In my uni in Germany we developed one driverless car and its riding across the campus. Thanks to bureacracy it won't see real streets at least for next 5 years. Small student teams and companies can create such cars and technology way faster due to minimal bureacracy / organizing, but they will be hindered by big companies + government here

Imagine how boring it is for drivers to just watch the computer drive.

Autonomous trains have been a thing for decades further proving that rail is still the best solution, but indeed buses are needed as well.

Nice advancement!

Welcome to super safe city..no hooligan at night😊😊😊

Guess which mode of transport already has achieved the step of being fully driverless in actual commercial service many years ago, while being perfectly safe without intervention of a guy sitting at the stirring wheel? Still, great news, because rural areas unfortunately won't get metros for the forseeable future.

Which company’s auto tech in this bus?

It just won't stop here .soon Everything maybe autonomous for the transit system that includes taxi train and I hope not but maybe even airplanes.

It works when all cars are self driving on the roads

I swear Japan and South Korea are of another world.

This can never work in Germany. We have two security guards along with a night bus driver to protect the driver and the bus from vandalism. It may work only in Japan or South Korea.

NO WAY MILA IS FEATURED IN THIS VID (idk who this is)

It's almost like a tram...🤔

It is no more self-driving than Tesla FSD. We are still a couple of decades away from anything actually self-driving (with no driver ready to take the steering wheel).

I think that this service is only possible for late nite commuters because then the buses sensors can cope with off peak traffic , both cars and pedestrians.

Mila the ex girlfriend of the stalker hiding in my room

License the full self-driving from Tesla.

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Never is a long time. With money and technology most of the issues will be solved eventually, it's only a matter of when. Some people are just pessimistic. Not soon but in fifty years? I would be surprised if they don't have most of the kinks worked out. Computers continue to get smaller, more powerful and less expensive.

Agree there are so many to consider as it said dogs, weather and people might get hurt if things go wrong but somebody must start.

Might as well just install a streetcar/tram.