Bus guidance
16th June 1984, Page 5
16th June 1984
Page 5
Page 5, 16th June 1984
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A NEW bus guidance system, developed by Mercedes, for use in narrow city centres is being tried as an experiment in Fuerth, West Germany.
Over a stretch of nearly half a mile, in the centre of this Bavarian town, buses are being electronically steered from cables just below the road surface.
The cables transmit electronic impulses which are picked up inside the bus and passed on as signals to the hydraulic steering mechanism.
The drivers, who have been trained at a Mercedes test centre in Rastatt, only need to accelerate or brake. They can sit at the wheel with their arms folded.
Mercedes claim the automatic system means that the buses can be controlled with more precision than by human hands.