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Even with self driving cars, they cannot move any where near the quantity of people in a given space that a train can. It's not going to be a solution for dense
by imgabe 8y ago
Even with self driving cars, they cannot move any where near the quantity of people in a given space that a train can. It's not going to be a solution for dense cities.
Besides, if we are just on the cusp of having self-driving cars we should be able to deploy self-driving trains right now and reap all the benefits of autonomous transport immediately.
- transfire 8y ago> self-driving trains Should have had these for a while now.
- sbisson 8y agoWe are. In London the DLR is the most obvious driverless network, but various parts of the Tube have been essentially driverless since the 1980s (initially on the Victoria Line, then on the Central after its resignalling, and on the Jubilee extension).
- fs111 8y agoThose exist in many cities. The train to/from the Airport in Copenhagen for instance has no drivers.
- Zxian 8y agoMany cities use automated light rail or subway systems. Vancouver, Canada has has such a system in place since late 1985. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_automated_urban_metro_subway_systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_automated_urban_metro_...
- masklinn 8y ago> Besides, if we are just on the cusp of having self-driving cars we should be able to deploy self-driving trains right now and reap all the benefits of autonomous transport immediately. Self-driving (GoA4) trains are close to 40 years old: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobe_New_Transit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobe_New_Transit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lille_Metro https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lille_Metro