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Will self-driving vehicles kill rail?

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  • #32
    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,384 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    MGWR wrote: »
    Given what's happened with Tesla's "self-driving" cars of late, I'd expect a rational population to flee automation as quickly as possible.

    Blame people who reviewed it, instead of Tesla. Every amatuer "Look I see a new technology thing a record a video of it" showed it off by driving for miles with their hands off the wheel doing other tasks. It set the expectation in other people who didn't critique it, that it's how they were meant to use the car.
    MGWR wrote: »
    Get ready for hacked road vehicles, then. Such technology ought to be done by demand rather than socially-engineered into place, besides.

    It already happens if a car has networking capabilites. It doesn't need to be able to drive by itself. A lot parameters could be controlled remotely.


    With regards to sustainability of Rail long term, I always thought it was Freight that was the bigger part of the business?


  • #33
    dowlingm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,363 ✭✭✭dowlingm


    trains and trams are over said the acolytes of Dr Beeching and the fellas who killed trams in Dublin. Streetcars are going into or have gone into American cities as disparate as Cincinnati, Kansas City, El Paso and Washington DC, and one is even proposed for NYC.

    Time will tell.


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