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Tech disrupts the school bus — A Silicon Valley start-up promised to modernize school transportation. Instead, it stranded thousands of students (slate.com)

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Tech disrupts the school bus — A Silicon Valley start-up promised to modernize school transportation. Instead, it stranded thousands of students::When disruption is just disruptive.

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[–] deweydecibel@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Safer, too. You generally don't want smaller buses that anyone can drive without a CDL. You want the big, honkin yellow bois, that are some of the safest vehicles on the road, party because of their size and weight.

Also, and this was a problem in the roll out: more drivers means more need for substitutes to fill in when they call off. They had drivers just not show up for various reasons, and the kids were stuck.

People are forgetting why we have busses in the first place.

No one is forgetting. This is another idiotic startup with a solution in search of a problem. And one district got suckered into it. Most districts wouldn't dream of adopting something as idiotic as this, and if they did, parents would revolt.