""It's a computer, right? There's a lot of factors we have got to think about, we have children who run on and off the bus," Tomas Fret, president of Local 1181, told Streetsblog. "They don't run into the street, but it can very well happen, and a computer could shut down at any time. What happens if it shuts down right in front of the bus?""
""I mean, who knows what they're thinking," she said. "[I] feel like they're looking to replace all of us.""
""DMV and State Police and our other partners throughout the state [are] comfortable ... that this is working and that at some point in time we need to go to the next level," he told lawmakers."
Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1181, representing school bus drivers, mechanics and attendants in New York City, Long Island, parts of the Hudson Valley and New Jersey, opposes expanding autonomous vehicle pilots beyond New York City. Union leaders raise safety concerns about AVs malfunctioning near children who run on and off buses and express fear that automation will displace workers. DMV Commissioner Mark Schroeder defended expansion by citing safety data from the New York City Waymo pilot and said state agencies are comfortable moving forward. Lawmakers remain divided over allowing municipalities outside New York City to run AV taxi pilots.
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