See photos of new self-driving shuttle roaming downtown West Palm Beach
Boca Raton-based tech company Guident debuted its autonomous bus to pick up passengers along its one-mile route connecting the West Palm Beach Brightline train station and the parking garage on Sapodilla Avenue and Hibiscus Street.
The vehicle is almost driverless.
A human operator on an Xbox video game controller occupied one seat on its initial run. The Xbox was plugged into the shuttle to manually steer it if its self-driving software didn't stop the bus when people or things suddenly blocked it.
Chris Persaud covers transportation in Palm Beach County for The Palm Beach Post. Email news tips and ideas to cpersaud@pbpost.com.
This article originally appeared on Palm Beach Post: Photos: Self-driving shuttle in downtown West Palm Beach
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