Comment by wsatb
I think we’re a long way from autonomous buses. There are lots of extra variables in how a bus operates. In fact, I doubt we would ever see a fully autonomous bus with no employee. How does it handle a disabled passenger? How does it handle security in the middle of the night? The wait is possibly long enough that these taxis have already killed transit agencies.
Maybe with cost savings from autonomous buses they could allocate resources to dedicated human driven buses for disabled persons?