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Driverless trains are actually a pretty new thing, being on tracks is not as set/forget as people assume. If you mean "transportation where I'm not driving" th
by Spivak 3y ago
Driverless trains are actually a pretty new thing, being on tracks is not as set/forget as people assume.
If you mean "transportation where I'm not driving" then sure but taxis also fit that bill.
- katbyte 3y agoSky train in Vancouver bc has been driverless for near 40 years now
- DanielVZ 3y agoSubway trains have been able to be autonomous since at least a decade.
- masswerk 3y agoParis Metro introduced driverless on all their MP 55 train sets in 1967.
- brooke2k 3y agoProportionally, they are far, far closer to self driving even with multiple people driving the train. A ratio of just 1:100 drivers:passengers is a vast improvement on personal cars which would probably be what, 1:1? Maybe 1:2 on average?
- LelouBil 3y agoParis had it's first fully automated subway line in 1998. Today there are 2 fully automated ones and one other mixing manual and automated. The sofware was developped by Matra transport international (now Siemens Mobility). It can even dynamically add/remove trains in service to best match the demand ! It also apparently uses a 48 bit cpu architecture. [0] https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syst%C3%A8me_d%27automatisation_de_l%27exploitation_des_trains https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syst%C3%A8me_d%27automatisat...