South Korea: Self-driving night buses on streets of Seoul | BBC News
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In recent months, commuters in South Korea's capital have been riding what is believed to be the world’s first driverless night bus.
So, what is a late night ride like on the streets of Seoul?
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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.
If you live your life with discipline and respect. Everyone can be like that. It’s just a matter of how disciplined you are. You don’t have to be always rich.
The birth rate of South Korea is decreasing@@satwikskatti
@@jianjunsun7699 and??
@@satwikskatti and why?
Your country is shit hole
it doesn't have to be perfect, just better than the average driver
Not to mention that this is the worst it will be - it'll only continue to improve and get cheaper as time goes on.
Not exactly a high bar to clear.
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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.
How is this a world's first when in China really driverless busses are operating for years now
@@peacelover2008 This is full size bus, not a mini bus lol
@@peacelover2008 Maybe so, but credibility of whatever coming out of China is pretty low, especially to the western countries.
@@ndychung007 yea cause Western jealousy and insecurity has been pushing to try and find and exaggerate every flaw of anything coming out of China just like they did to Japan when Japan was having it's economic miracle 😂😂😂😂
@@peacelover2008 Whatever China does, why I don't trust them, is that they EVEN cannot change their political leader who decides everything. But some China haters want Xi be there forever because he is the very obstacle for Chinese people's advance. Just like Putin and Kim ruining Russia and NK.
In US a bus running all the night would be full of homeless people sleeping inside.
Hahaha US and it's homeless problems and yet they have billions of dollar to give out to other countries for military arms 😂. USA is a joke country
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.
True
Dogs, children, weather -- yeah like human drivers deal with those any better
You have misquoted him, but yes...he is a world class idiot.
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I'm in South Korea as we speak and these buses really are amazing
i lose my job
Then you need to find a job a robot can't do.
@@geoms6263 That is my second irritation with AI 😤
No robberies,mugging,stabbing & shootings too. Lol
Damn I just got my driving licence. What's the point.
I lived in a satellite city for years and the trains were ALWAYS on time there.. incomparable to the UK.
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!
Korea is the future. My dream destination
Yeah.. those AI also have dream to took ur job at future. 😊
@@gioaxe4538 That would be great
@@Alex-gf5xn yeah when A.I. takes our jobs. I hope I can survive to sell our kidney. 😎🥂
@@gioaxe4538 If AI takes over 50% of Jobs, Universal Basic Income will come because if the majority of people don't have enough money to buy anything economy will collapse. There is no other solution besides UBI.
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!
in Seoul, buses have their own lanes in the middle. Look at @3:00.
In some parts of its route but not in other segments.
👍south Korea 🇰🇷 ❤️
China has them too 👍🏿
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@@pessi6185God loves you and Chinese people from Taiwan 🇹🇼 and China 🇨🇳 God doesn't judge you on worldly success, nor looks, nor race, and nor popularity. Jesus Christ loves ❤️ you and values your character only. I hope you believe that Jesus Christ is your Savior ❤
Respect for having the guts to actually put these on the road. I’m still not convinced that this is the way to go, but to put that kind of money into the program is a respectable move.
@@pessi6185 LOL I just KNEW the Chinese would have to pipe up!! How is it the Koreans can make these technological achievements without all the tiresome boasting that the Chinese feel the need to do?
South Korean technology is amazing
False you’re capping
@@maxlopez7671having an opinion is allowed mate
@@maxlopez7671another nip can’t cope.
@@maxlopez7671 It's ok you can cry.
@@XGN05 crying about what that you’re delusional think South Korea had advance tech knowing they steal other companies dumbass not by themselves
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
phucc u mean boo boo, it can't.
It still can't.
Most people are luddites
It still can't. Plus this is a very different situation
Most people are luddites
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
the himr community coming in hard I see!!!
This is just jealous of Korea 😂
The adaptability and smartness of South Korean are the best in the world.🎉🎉
This is what we need in London. Fed up with the train,tube and bus strikes .
Autonomous tube would be way better
Sorry to say this, but as an engineer having travelled the tube, the infrastructure is not suitable for driverless trains. For comparision, 4 out of 6 metro lines in Singapore are fully automated, but they still have staff on board who can take over in the event of disruptions which it happens.
@@mustansirdohadwala8168 I'm not saying we are ready,I'm saying we need that.
@softKactuz I'm sorry that you were inconvienced by drivers trying to get a more comfortable wage.
@PKhaganate elizabethan line drivers were payed full salary for over a year without working, because of the delays
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.
except he's actually making good points
Well… except for calling it “sheer nonsense”. We’re obviously not there yet, but to call it nonsense after the progress we’ve seen in the last 15 years or so. Long way to go but how confident can you really be that this problem won’t be solved in the next 15 years?
Agreed, for a Professor he is woefully uninformed. He should do a crash course on exponential growth and machine learning.
@@Gfynbcyiokbg8710 even those situations are going to be solved down to the last detail, it's not impossible, there's just other low hanging fruit to pick right now. Like the intervention showed on video, that situation will go directly into the training data for the machine learning algorithm to retrain for gaining maximum score or a human to program instructions how to best behave
@@ayoCC no
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.
exquisite 🤣
Poor bus driver sat there thinking my days are numbered! 🎉
The point made was that people didn't want to drive buses any more, especially at night.
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@goyasolidar not really. We all know this is the start. Soon it will be all buses which are driver less. Then all truck which are driverless and then all Taxies. Millions of jobs will go.
Driverless busses might be new but driverless subway trains have been around for at least 25 years.
in which countries?
@@TzoHillOver 30. Just google a list of GoA4 level systems
Vancouver's Sky train is completely autonomous and its reaching 40th birthday
@@TzoHill Canada, British Columbia is the first and oldest I believe
@@glassowaterful oooh... 💭
1:57 its Mila from "Hiding In My Room" channel! 😮
May never be solved? Man will never fly
Preposterous dude saying that.
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So sad that the country directly to the north of them is still living in the early 1900s
Isn’t that sad? People, politics and religion 🙄
@@Trapper_Creek_2024 I don't think there's a lot of religion north of the border lol
1900 is too futuristic for NK.
1900 is too futuristic for NK.
The only difference between two Koreas is sanctions.
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!!!
In London, normal bus drivers don't stop for you and wizz past you at times. 😂😂😂
Finally, Korean day-shift bus drivers don't have to also work a night-shift everyday as well.
im sure that driver's gonna be so happy when this tech becomes perfect.
What about many busdrivers losing their jobs
Or taxi drivers, limo drivers, train drivers, semi truck drivers. Lots and lots of added unemployment, but I guess they will just have to learn to code right?
Saves the taxpayer money and improves service, sign me up
@@TheJanoobycoders are also afraid of AI.
@@ieltsmentor2427 learn to code is an expression, i wasnt implying they should actually become code programmers
"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.
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.
Amazing Korea ❤
Milaaaaaaa come back lol
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.
Its Mila from Hiding In My Room Oh my god hahah
1:55 mila :O
There are 1.3 million people dying annually in car accidents. Human drivers are just too dangerous
Oslo has zero deaths and it's not because of self driving cars.
@@user-221i You’re using that statistic incorrectly. They reached zero PEDESTRIAN AND CYCLIST deaths. Deaths in car accidents still happen. Pay more attention to the details.
Most car accidents occur in developing nations or nations that drive a lot like the US, and car accident per driven mile statistics will improve greatly even without self-driving when collision avoidance systems in cars and trucks become standard...
I'm tired of this dumb response. A bus driving wouldn't stop anyone else. AI driving haven't been proven better or even competent because there's few, they're hardly allowed. and there's no plans on banning people from driving. It's not bus drivers causing these accidents.
What a stupid response, a good human driver is certainly better than a mindless AI.
Description suits as 'Assisted Self-Driving' than 'Driverless'
Kinda
May never be solved? Never say never.
1:55 Mila!! HIMR!!
lol
we came here for that moment lol
There is a driver in the bus. The heading is misleading. It should be driver monitored self driving night bus
😂
How is this a world's first when in China really driverless busses are operating for years now
@@peacelover2008 That's not this kinda big bus dude
@@peacelover2008ok ok china is the best so plz do not come out of ur country😂
Thats right in China in some places it runs during the day there is no driver to monitor no driving wheel no dashboard and it runs smoothly
1:55 Mila, 30 years old and significant weight gain since 2020 on the HIMR channel.
Just leave her alone and move on with your life
@@user-zh2zm2vo1i Nope. Going to try and meet up with her and sleep with her when I go to Seoul this summer. Then I can finally be Eskimo brothers with Daniel.
Korean food is just too delicious 😋
that currie guy has his head so far up himself he can't see light driverless is clearly the future
Thanks
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
Yes!! Finally a bus that's not emotional and randomly skips stops and ignores back doors 😂
Mila looks like an extra from the musical Oliver!
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
Would it have been cheaper and safer to construct an autonomous light rail or trolley? Just wondering...
Those exist yes but they shut down for maintenance every night
Korea lives in 3 steps more forward than other countries ❤🔥
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…
"There's been a couple of moments where he's had to take the wheel, but by and large..."
2:18 South Korea is so advanced. They already have hoverboards !
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.
There's so many things making this impossible.
1:05 that's how ordinary bus drivers drive here in India.
at twice the speed too 😆
It's not perfect yet but improving safety day by day
“We won’t need anyone operating this bus” the bus driver sitting there listening to this 😐
This is why South Korea is the most technologically advanced nation in the world.
Autonomous vehicles aren't advanced technology. :)
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.
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 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
Ilmenau is a small city in Germany. They are experimenting with such buses (day & night) from quite some time now. So nothing new!
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?
The self-driving transformer wheelchair.
@FlushGorgon does the self driving bus stop for visually impared people who don't stick their hand out for a bus.
It is not perfect yet. But they are making an effort to collect the data and improve the autonomous driving.
Nice advancement!
Autonomous trains have been a thing for decades further proving that rail is still the best solution, but indeed buses are needed as well.
Finally some real news from BBC 😂
It should be themed like the Tranzit robot of cod zombies
OMG it's Mila 🤣🤣 Danny will treat you right baby girl, just please please give him another chance! ❤
Ridicolous conclusion on the fact that autonomous driving MAY NEVER happen because of the presence of dogs...
can get 24/7 bus every 5 minit
In SK they build self driving buses while in the UK we celebrate the rescue of some cat from a tree
Meow meow
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 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 am a dad of a 7 year old boy that was kidnapped to South Korea. Korea is a partner country of "Hague convention" that is supposed to promptly return children that were illegally taken across the border. FBI was trying to book a flight to Korea to rescue the child. However, Korean government stopped them saying this is a civil matter and because it is not criminal in Korea, the dad should go through civil court. (Especially because Korea is a signatory state of Hague convention) I did. Korea took 2 years to make a final decision that this boy has to PROMPTLY return to the US. But they didn't prepare an enforcement mechanism. I got a total of 10 court orders just in Korea(including the Korean Supreme court order). And my son Bryan's 3 week trip became a 5 year separation from me. I talked to multiple Korean officials and although they admit the problem, nobody is taking responsibility. They ask the child who doesn't even remember dad "Do you wanna stay here, or do you wanna go to Dad?" And if he says he wants to stay, they go home. They say it's too late. "He doesn't remember you, so what do you want us to do?" Korea calls this respecting the child. On the other hand US court orders clearly states that the mother has serious concerns of mental issues and she is a threat to the child. The patenting evaluator said this is a form of child abuse. Korea ignores this problem. They just say we can't do anything. I love Korea and I wanted to trust that they can respect the law, but I am at a point that I have to take this into my own hands and raise public awareness. Last time I protested at Pike Place Market, and this time I went to Korean Consulate in Seattle. [Watch Video](kzhead.info/sun/Z9uRcdqKlnxshYE/bejne.htmlsi=gY5cZd-HM1ycaGdg) I would appreciate it if you can spread the words, and tell people. If we can't bring Bryan back, no children will be safe from being abducted to South Korea. Thank you.
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.
We have real self driving busses in the netherlands for atleast a decade....
Lmao😂 the guy saying at the end that “self driving is science fiction” is so stupid 😂 made me laugh so hard😂
It doesn't surprise me. I was in SK a few weeks ago and the 5G connectivity was incredibly fast.
Pretty sure it's not the first in the world. There's already self-driving bus routes in Scotland, Guangzhou and San Francisco.
Moron
Moron 2
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It works when all cars are self driving on the roads
Imagine how boring it is for drivers to just watch the computer drive.
they are constantly not amused, so nothing new 😅
Driver and Technicians wont be there in few months. IF they get the green light. First these buses had to pass test circuits Second (this stage) is on real roads but with safety driver with technicians onboard Last stage the buses will be unsupervised. Note: It will be easier in Seoul than most countries as public buses have dedicated bus lanes
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.
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.
License the full self-driving from Tesla.
“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.
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.
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.
Welcome to super safe city..no hooligan at night😊😊😊
This can work for some countries with very well-managed roads, clean streets & roads, state of art techs, disciplined cultured people, very low crime etc.. I can only think Japan, S.Korea, SIngapore and few others and that's it. They all have population issue, so they can easily replace these kind of jobs with autonomous system.
At first I thought they let the bus drive itself with no driver on the seat incase of an emergency . That would make me uncomfortable given how unreliable computer programs are incase of new occurences tjey are not used to
I swear Japan and South Korea are of another world.
NO WAY MILA IS FEATURED IN THIS VID (idk who this is)
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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.