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Drivers are still a lot better at spotting pedestrians on tracks than autonomous systems. Autonomous train systems already exists, but those are completely enc
by Svip 7y ago
Drivers are still a lot better at spotting pedestrians on tracks than autonomous systems. Autonomous train systems already exists, but those are completely enclosed systems, like a city metro system. Not a system where speeds reach 200 km/h, or even 100 km/h.
- Piskvorrr 7y agoModern rail can (and does) run autonomously, at 160 km/h. How-e-ver, it can run autonomously about 90% of the time...and it's far, far more cost-efficient to keep a driver in the cab than to add reliability nines here: detecting and reacting to humans is far harder for machines than for humans (think Elaine Herzberg, but at 160 km/h).
- rurban 7y agoThe ability to spot pedestrians on tracks is something you want to avoid. First you cannot break it anyway that fast. Second, rolling over suicidal pedestrians has a high psychotherapy cost. Driver-less trains not.