In message , at 09:20:00 on
Sun, 19 Mar 2006, Stevie D remarked:
If that were true, most of my bus journeys would be free too...

The difference being that your bus has a driver who can collect fares
as you board - driverless pods won't.

But they may have a slot into which you have insert a token of some
kind, or a gate on the entry too the pod-station. I suspect they will
also have staff on site, because otherwise it will be too easy to cause
the whole system to grind to a halt if someone spends ages getting their
luggage and kids, or a wheelchair, on board (I assume these things will
be fully accessible?)

Most of your bus journeys aren't made by people clutching Euro or Dollar
bills, and nothing resembling 80p in sterling.

€1 = £0.7 ... $1 = £0.6 ... close enough!

What they might need is something the ticket machine will accept -
having said that I bought a 3 Swiss Franc train ticket from a machine
with Amex last month, which came in at £1.36
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Roland Perry