poprock wrote:Keep an eye on our underground system up here in Glasgow. It’s due to switch to 100% driverless in the next couple of years. So we’re the guinea pigs (again) and you can watch how much or how little things fuck up here.
Yossarian wrote:The Dockland Light Railway has been driverless since it was created. The guinea pigs were bankers for a change.
poprock wrote:
Jaco wrote:
Trains are the one form of transport that I think will run much better with as little human involvement as possible. Cannot wait for them to go fully robo.
Jaco wrote:Trains are the one form of transport that I think will run much better with as little human involvement as possible. Cannot wait for them to go fully robo.
Roujin wrote:Also while I'm here, it's clearly cars. Cars being autonomous is going to save way more lives and reduce traffic and make everyone happier when you can just get in the car and chill out/do work/whatever instead of punching your steering wheel.Jaco wrote:Trains are the one form of transport that I think will run much better with as little human involvement as possible. Cannot wait for them to go fully robo.
Roujin wrote:HATE CRIME DETECTED.
SpaceGazelle wrote:It's a way off with cars yet. They can drive pretty well in small numbers but it'll take a lot of communication between all the cars to make it work well, and that makes it vulnerable to hacking.Roujin wrote:Also while I'm here, it's clearly cars. Cars being autonomous is going to save way more lives and reduce traffic and make everyone happier when you can just get in the car and chill out/do work/whatever instead of punching your steering wheel.Jaco wrote:Trains are the one form of transport that I think will run much better with as little human involvement as possible. Cannot wait for them to go fully robo.
GurtTractor wrote:Everything as a service. Subscribe to life.
Roujin wrote:SpaceGazelle wrote:It's a way off with cars yet. They can drive pretty well in small numbers but it'll take a lot of communication between all the cars to make it work well, and that makes it vulnerable to hacking.Roujin wrote:Also while I'm here, it's clearly cars. Cars being autonomous is going to save way more lives and reduce traffic and make everyone happier when you can just get in the car and chill out/do work/whatever instead of punching your steering wheel.Jaco wrote:Trains are the one form of transport that I think will run much better with as little human involvement as possible. Cannot wait for them to go fully robo.
Oh yeah, no doubt it's a hard one to impliment. I feel like the nature of car ownership would need to change and you just subscribe to a car service that sends it's cars to you rather than owning your own.
I realise the petrolheads are not going to like that, but petrol is going in the bin hopefully in my lifetime. No offence petrolheads, I will be sad when the last Lancia Delta is off the road as well.
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