Four tiny, driverless buses are on trial in the Greek city of Trikala, the first of five European cities to introduce the automated transportation. <br /><br /> The vehicles are part of CityMobil2, an EU-funded research project that is staging tests of automated road transport systems with self-driving buses across Europe. Each bus can carry 10 to 12 passengers along the road at speeds of up to 20 kilometers an hour, around the same speed as a milk float, but faster than a golf buggy. <br /><br /> “I was saying…a bus without a driver, how could it be?,” asked one elderly woman who took a trip out one of the tiny buses. “But I really enjoyed it and had no problem. It’s like a regular bus. I will use it, since it passes through my neighborhood.”<br /><br /> The buses are electric, silent and non-polluting.<br /><br /> It uses batteries to power an electric engine,” explained Vasilis Karavidas who is responsible for the maintenance and repair of the buses. “It is equipped with GPS and laser and follows a predetermined route. Th
