Could An Autonomous Self-Driving Semi Truck Deal With This Human Error?

As reported by The Daily Mail in Syndey, Australia, a bus driver has apologised for the frightening near-miss between his school bus carrying 20 children and a loaded truck on Sydney's M5 motorway.

CCTV footage released by police shows the bus allegedly pulling out in front of a semi-trailer on the busy motorway at Hammondville during last weeks Thursday morning school run (watch video above).

The semi truck was driving approximately 62 miles per hour in the left lane when a school bus swerved from the exit lane back onto the highway, severely cutting off the big rig.

The truck driver, Daryl Wilson, quickly turned the wheel to avoid the school bus, jack-knifing his trailer and sending up plumes of smoke.

The bus driver, Kazem Afkhamisaddoghi, continued driving the bus as if nothing had happened and eventually had to be escorted to the shoulder by other motorists.

“I put my car in front of the bus and slowed him down” claimed Daniel O’Sullivan, a witness to the near-tragedy. “A truck driver observed what I was doing and we herded him into the help point area,” he added.

“I expected carnage on the road,” admitted O’Sullivan. ‘I could observe children in the bus,” he said. “I expected they’d be severely injured if not killed.”

Thanks to the fast-acting efforts of trucker Daryl Wilson, nobody was injured in the accident.

“I’m very, very sorry about this,” says Afkhamisaddoghi, the driver of the school bus.

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