S. Korean capital launches self-driving bus experiment

Autonomous bus: Jeong posing next to the self-driving bus in Seoul. The bus will drive itself around a 3.4km circuit downtown. — AFP

SEOUL: South Korea’s capital has launched its first self-driving bus route, part of an experiment which engineers said aims to make people feel more comfortable with driverless vehicles on the roads.

The new vehicle does not look like a regular bus and has rounded edges along with large windows that make it appear more like a toy than a technological breakthrough.