Transports of Apathy

As with such other triumphs as shale-fracking and the poll tax, driverless buses have been tested on the provincials and found wanting. A pioneering service between Fife and Edinburgh is to be withdrawn because its driverlessness has been excessively augmented by passengerlessness. Even the endearingly British fact that driverless buses require twice as many human crew aboard as driverful ones has proved insufficient to tempt the meatware aboard. Since the standard British solution to public indifference is Whether They Like It Or Not, the termination of the service is naturally a delay rather than a setback.