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no your eyes are not playing tricks on you this bus is indeed steering itself UC Berkeley engineers hope that one day of fleet of these automated buses will mimic a light rail systems efficiency and smoothness but with a low cost of a bus system here's a question is it going to save me time if you can come back a bus in the train together as a single system then a lot of people be more attracted to this system compare that to the two to the millions of dollars or real system for Maya that is a significance to order differencing when pulling into a stop this bus really does operate more like a train getting within an inch to the curb something that's very very difficult to do on a traditional bus with a real-life bus driver here's how the technology works it's a ceramic magnets exactly the same as you put on your refrigerator we basically embedded have an inch to an inch under the road now that becoming your rail spaced every three to four feet apart on this one mile stretch of road the bus is too magnetometers under the doors follow the path but how do would be passengers feel about riding on this robotic bus it's not a problem for me because um the subway we got a driver already exists in France first let all the politicians go on at first no it's got to be real we're going to keep it real don't expect a ride one of these automated buses anytime soon testing will begin in the San Francisco Bay Area in the year 2010 in san leandro California I'm Kara Tsuboi cnet.com