Despite a Las Vegas Crash, Self-Driving Shuttle Buses Could Be the Future

In America, the age of autonomous shuttles began with a crunch. On Wednesday, the multinational transportation company Keolis, French manufacturer Navya, and AAA launched the small driverless vehicle in Las Vegas. The electric vehicle had an attendant on board, to keep the peace, and carried eight people in a half-mile loop around the Fremont Street Entertainment District. According to representatives from Keolis and AAA, as well as a first-person account published in Digital Trends, the shuttle encountered a semi-truck backing out of an alleyway and stopped. It couldn't back up, because there was a vehicle directly behind it.