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New Kentucky school bus routes a 'disaster,' prompts class cancellation as last kids arrive home at 10 pm some soaked in urine.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-kentucky-school-bus-routes-disaster-prompts-class-cancellation-las-rcna99430

AI generated bus routes. We don't need SkyNet...just decision making morons jumping onto the AI hype.

Trollhole says

AI generated bus routes. We don't need SkyNet...just decision making morons jumping onto the AI hype.

That's retarded. I think you can only fit what, 72 kids on a bus? Many go to one stop in a town/subdivision. Cities they generally walk. Even if it was 72 separate stops, how can you not manage that? I can do 600 addresses with probably 2,500 pieces of mail and parcels. I'm slow, but I'm done by 5:30pm.

In Montana, Big Sky is not Gallitin County. Most of it at least. Full time residents enrolled in public school have to go to Ennis. There's no public through road. They have to ride 1 hour to school. And 1 hour back. And that STILL gets them home by 5-6PM depending on winter weather. There's no legitimate excuse for a kid to be dropped off at 10pm.

No one wants to work, so they're hiring from the bottom of the barrel at this point. Note: I didn't read the article. But my guess is that's ultimately the issue.

WookieMan says

No one wants to work, so they're hiring from the bottom of the barrel at this point. Note: I didn't read the article. But my guess is that's ultimately the issue.

65,000 students being bussed. That's a lot of permutations to fuck up, actually. The bus drivers warned the school district that the new routes were patently insane. Nobody listened. Some AI firm was paid ~$200k to create these routes w/o any on-the-ground input. It's so bad they are canceling school for two days while they unfuck this mess.

I think the bus drivers got OT at least.