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With all of the advances in self-driving cars, I wonder why we don't have research into self-driving trains.
by sdrothrock 11y ago
With all of the advances in self-driving cars, I wonder why we don't have research into self-driving trains.
- Rondom 11y agoSelf-driving trains do exist. There are quite a few cities that use driverless trains. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_train_operation https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_train_operation
- thrownaway2424 11y agoIt's a matter of scale. A single train operator hauls thousands of people or thousands of tons of material. Getting rid of that one person hardly gains you everything. On the other hand a truck driver hardly hauls anything, maybe ten or twenty tons of cargo per driver.
- ianpurton 11y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docklands_Light_Railway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docklands_Light_Railway