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Rails are too restrictive for real life. I trust a self driving fleet to respond immediately to an emergency by stopping. Maybe causing a disruption but very li

Rails are too restrictive for real life. I trust a self driving fleet to respond immediately to an emergency by stopping. Maybe causing a disruption but very little loss of life or property.

carbadtraingood 4y ago
Rails are too restrictive for real life? I'm not sure what you are trying to say here... Rails are widely used for real life around the globe. In many, many places rails significantly out perform cars to the point that people choose not to own cars.
- bergenty 4y ago
  Yes point A to B on extremely selective routes or if you only want to go to/between towns/cities your whole life.
  - tokamak-teapot 4y ago
    Trams work well in the UK. Their advantage is their predictability, both in terms of how long they will be following the exact same route (rails mean this is hard to change) and their ability to remain unaffected by other traffic due to priority signals, some non-shared routes, etc. Yes they don’t go everywhere, but in the UK we aren’t very spread out in our cities, towns and even suburbs, so it’s reasonable to expect quite a large number of people to be within walking or cycling distance of a tram stop.
  - carbadtraingood 4y ago
    Lol, look at a map of Tokyo and Japan's rail network. Or Switzerland, or the Netherlands, or Hong Kong, or honestly nearly anywhere that actually builds rails. You can do just fine on rails. Sure, if you want to get into the rural mountains you might need to rent a car. But like, for most people rail will do you just fine.
kube-system 4y ago
Unless the emergency requires moving the vehicle. https://www.wired.com/story/cruise-fire-truck-block-san-francisco-autonomous-vehicles/ https://www.wired.com/story/cruise-fire-truck-block-san-fran... Until we do a better job of solving these issues, we need to have backup drivers available in these vehicles, or, the vehicles should be operating in places where dumb breakdowns don’t block ambulances and fire trucks.
dogman144 4y ago
Makes you wonder how Europe, NYC, Boston, and (a lot of others) manage with their real life concerns and public transportation system.
- bergenty 4y ago
  Trains/subways are great within a city but don’t work well for larger areas.

Rails are too restrictive for real life. I trust a self driving fleet to respond immediately to an emergency by stopping. Maybe causing a disruption but very little loss of life or property.

carbadtraingood 4y ago

Rails are too restrictive for real life? I'm not sure what you are trying to say here... Rails are widely used for real life around the globe. In many, many places rails significantly out perform cars to the point that people choose not to own cars.

bergenty 4y ago
Yes point A to B on extremely selective routes or if you only want to go to/between towns/cities your whole life.
- tokamak-teapot 4y ago
  Trams work well in the UK. Their advantage is their predictability, both in terms of how long they will be following the exact same route (rails mean this is hard to change) and their ability to remain unaffected by other traffic due to priority signals, some non-shared routes, etc. Yes they don’t go everywhere, but in the UK we aren’t very spread out in our cities, towns and even suburbs, so it’s reasonable to expect quite a large number of people to be within walking or cycling distance of a tram stop.
- carbadtraingood 4y ago
  Lol, look at a map of Tokyo and Japan's rail network. Or Switzerland, or the Netherlands, or Hong Kong, or honestly nearly anywhere that actually builds rails. You can do just fine on rails. Sure, if you want to get into the rural mountains you might need to rent a car. But like, for most people rail will do you just fine.

kube-system 4y ago

Unless the emergency requires moving the vehicle. https://www.wired.com/story/cruise-fire-truck-block-san-francisco-autonomous-vehicles/ https://www.wired.com/story/cruise-fire-truck-block-san-fran... Until we do a better job of solving these issues, we need to have backup drivers available in these vehicles, or, the vehicles should be operating in places where dumb breakdowns don’t block ambulances and fire trucks.

dogman144 4y ago

Makes you wonder how Europe, NYC, Boston, and (a lot of others) manage with their real life concerns and public transportation system.

bergenty 4y ago
Trains/subways are great within a city but don’t work well for larger areas.