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> train engines Singapore MRT is completely driverless. Over 200km of track and 120 stations serving a city of five million people, intrigued how you wouldn't
by Grimburger 4y ago
> train engines
Singapore MRT is completely driverless. Over 200km of track and 120 stations serving a city of five million people, intrigued how you wouldn't deem it fully automated?
- TheOtherHobbes 4y agoLondon's Victoria Line has been driverless for decades. It's not a hard problem. You solve it by putting linked activators along the track to control the train speed and acceleration. RMT has backup sensors for train position and radio control for emergencies. It's plain old engineering. No AI required. It's a completely different problem to automating a mixed use national high speed rail network which has to deal with a huge range of contingencies.
- rippercushions 4y agoOnly the new fully underground lines are driverless. The aboveground North-South and East-West lines, which are also the backbone of the network, have human drivers.