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My belief is that we'll be replaced when vast swathes of roads are replaced with ones designed for automated vehicle transport, which is a fair way out of my li
by weego 7y ago
My belief is that we'll be replaced when vast swathes of roads are replaced with ones designed for automated vehicle transport, which is a fair way out of my lifetime I'd imagine.
- Piskvorrr 7y agoAs in...railroads?
- njarboe 7y agoIf I could drive my car onto a railroad track in SF and then not drive again until I drove off the tracks in LA, that would be great.
- reciprocornous 7y agoHyperloops :P
- jodrellblank 7y agoSpeaking of, why are we talking about self-driving cars when trains and trams still have drivers, and those are much more constrained problem spaces?
- numpad0 7y agoSimply because it has been a control theory challenge. Weight on the wheels change, frictions change and drivers are expected to stop the train within inches on average, and a feet at worst. That requires some R&D to implement. Yurikamome trams in Tokyo runs in L4-L5 and Tsukuba Express runs in L2, in SDC levels term. There was also a L4 PoC in Yamanote line so that’ll probably come by the end of this decade. Elevators had been L4 for like half a century as well, by the way.
- rainyMammoth 7y agobecause the cost of a train/bus driver is negligible compared to the train/bus and its riders.
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- Piskvorrr 7y agoThe Parisian metro has a L4 line since 1980s...on an isolated track, without significant branching, controlled by a single computer from a command center. Yet emergencies are still escalated to humans, even things as common as "somebody is stuck in the door". In other words, getting trains to L4 is straightforward, and there's been a rollout for half a century. Making the jump to "doesn't even need the driver to handle emergencies," that's a task comparable in scope to getting cars from L2 to L4.