Waymo now testing its self-driving cars on public roads with no one at the wheel

Re:Waymo now testing its self-driving cars on public roads w... by mschuster91 on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @07:10AM (#15651611)

> where I grew up a single school bus cost the district over $1m

What? Per year or once? If per year I wonder what amounts of corruption must be going on. A simple 31-seater bus from Mercedes costs approx. 285.000€ to buy new (https://www.busplaner.de/omnibusmagazin/omnibustest/10035/Me...), which means over a 5y life it's 57k/y... add the same for insurance premiums and the driver, and still I can't get anywhere close to that figure of 1M/bus per year.

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Re:Waymo now testing its self-driving cars on public roads w... by illirik on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @10:06AM (#15653082)

In the US, school buses are typically 70-80 seaters; when I was in high school ~4 years ago, I rode a Blue Bird Vision (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Bird_Vision). These will get around ten miles to the US gallon of diesel and cost around $110,000 US. The lifespan of these buses is typically around 20 years; each school day, they might be driven a hundred miles or more. $1m over 20 years seems reasonable.

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Re:Waymo now testing its self-driving cars on public roads w... by mschuster91 on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @10:33AM (#15653400)

Yeah, over 20 years 1M sounds reasonable - wasn't really recognizable what timespan was meant from parent's post...

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