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Whenever I hear this stuff about driverless cars, I think of the BART system in California.
IMHO a train system should be much easier to computerize than cars. All vehicles are under control of the computer, there are no "lanes" and way fewer opportunities to make a wrong turn, stops are very limited, sensors can be placed wherever needed, etc. Yet even after 40+ years to "work out the bugs", they still have to have human operators on the trains in case the computer has a hiccup, and from what I understand those hiccups occur pretty regularly.
So if they can't make a train system reliable with computer control, how likely is it to happen with cars in the "real world"?
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Posts in this Thread:
- Driverless cars & Insurance, Noel, Sat, 18 May 2013 06:22:42
- We're getting close to it now, No Snaab, Fri, 24 May 2013 04:34:29
- Driverless vehicles, ELaw , Mon, 20 May 2013 04:47:18 <-- Viewing This Message
- Re: Trains, Bill Homer , Mon, 20 May 2013 06:19:37
- Autonomous cars found trustworthy in global study, JohnA , Sun, 19 May 2013 07:41:26
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