The manufacturer calls it a bus. It looks like a bus. It's a bus.
What a weird hill to die on.
Looks like a very nice bus, anyway.
He added: "We want some dedicated road space – not for the whole route, because that causes difficulties for cars, but we want it to have some space where it can make rapid progress and shorten the time people spend on public transport."
We've got a word for that too. It's a "bus lane". Should probably have some of those anyway, bendy-buses or otherwise.