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A interesting analogy is the Washington DC Metro, which was automated but now isn't due to a significant accident in 2009 which killed 9 people. That's a train
by slibhb 6y ago
A interesting analogy is the Washington DC Metro, which was automated but now isn't due to a significant accident in 2009 which killed 9 people. That's a train on rails. We have much less tolerance for computers killing people compared to people killing people.
- wjamesg 6y agoThe DC metro was once automated? Interesting
- jedberg 6y agoBART in SF was too.
- stefan_ 6y agoYou would think that but then that Uber car ran over a pedestrian in the middle of a typical ultra wide deserted American throughfare with perfect lighting and.. kinda nothing happened? My pulse still rises when I think of that dashcam video they released that predictably shows nothing to blame that lady their negligence killed. Maybe the common denominator is just cars. The regulators are fully absent - they care about the shape of your headlights, but do they care that SUVs have them mounted at the height of mirrors for every other car? Do they care that cars have absurdly overpowered engines that have no imaginable use? Do they care that trucks have fronts so high it's impossible to see a kid walking on a crosswalk and when you hit it, it's hit head-height and thrown under the wheels? None of these things would ever fly on a train or airplane.
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- senkora 6y agoThat incident basically ended Uber ATG. I wouldn’t say that nothing happened.