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Except rail lines aren’t protected, and couldn’t feasibly be protected. An autonomous car could easily be protected from this simply by using local sensors for
by Robotbeat 8y ago
Except rail lines aren’t protected, and couldn’t feasibly be protected. An autonomous car could easily be protected from this simply by using local sensors for collision avoidance, which I think is the norm, as opposed to what this headline misleadingly (heh) suggests.
Edit: Relevant XKCD. Causing crashes isn’t hard period. https://m.xkcd.com/1958/ https://m.xkcd.com/1958/
- randomsearch 8y agoIn the UK railways are mostly protected. Now, that may be a simple fence, which someone could climb over, but then they may find themselves reported, or caught on CCTV. It's a very obvious, very visible thing to do, and in urban areas railways are indeed protected pretty well. And remote triggering something like that is non-trivial. Roads are everywhere, most of them completely unprotected, and you don't actually have to physically and visibly interfere with the road.
- DanBC 8y ago> In the UK railways are mostly protected. They aren't protected. We know this from the numbers of deaths that occur each year on the railways.