Could San Francisco Automate Strike-Threatening Train Drivers?
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Re: Could San Francisco Automate Strike-Threatening Train Drivers?
#2This is a rhetorical question. Of course it could. I've ridden driverless trains in at least three countries - the technology is unquestionably available, proven, and safe.
Is it possible politically? That is the real question. Perhaps not, but let's not pretend it has anything to do with technology.
Re: Could San Francisco Automate Strike-Threatening Train Drivers?
#3I wonder if TechCrunch articles could be automated. Have the TC editors ever bothered to ask, or are they too afraid of the interests of the contributors to explore the question?
Re: Could San Francisco Automate Strike-Threatening Train Drivers?
#4I wonder if TechCrunch articles could be automated. Have the TC editors ever bothered to ask, or are they too afraid of the interests of the contributors to explore the question?
If everyone could just email their PR pieces to a common techcrunch email address, someone could write a bit of code to check any links and then bung the text and pictures into an article template on the homepage.
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#5I would like to see all forms of transportation automated as long as it is proven safe. Trains have to be one of the easiest to automate since it runs on a track. If Google can automate a car which needs to avoid potholes, idiot drivers, construction, snow, rain, etc, I think we should be able to automate trains.
Re: Could San Francisco Automate Strike-Threatening Train Drivers?
#6I'm not from the bay area-- do the train operators seem to have any public support? I feel like it's hard to sympathize with striking workers who are already among the highest paid in the country for this line of work.
Re: Could San Francisco Automate Strike-Threatening Train Drivers?
#7I would like to see all forms of transportation automated as long as it is proven safe. Trains have to be one of the easiest to automate since it runs on a track. If Google can automate a car which needs to avoid potholes, idiot drivers, construction, snow, rain, etc, I think we should be able to automate trains.
If Google can automate a car which needs to avoid potholes, idiot drivers, construction, snow, rain, etc
Google hasn't done that (yet). http://googleblog.blogspot.hu/2012/08/the-self-driving-car-l...
Re: Could San Francisco Automate Strike-Threatening Train Drivers?
#8They should be. Artificially keeping jobs alive that are better, safer and cheaper performed by machines is bad for everyone in the long run, even the train drivers.
Re: Could San Francisco Automate Strike-Threatening Train Drivers?
#9I would like to see all forms of transportation automated as long as it is proven safe. Trains have to be one of the easiest to automate since it runs on a track. If Google can automate a car which needs to avoid potholes, idiot drivers, construction, snow, rain, etc, I think we should be able to automate trains.
If Google can automate a car which needs to avoid potholes, idiot drivers, construction, snow, rain, etc Google hasn't done that (yet). http://googleblog.blogspot.hu/2012/08/the-self-driving-car-l...
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Re: Could San Francisco Automate Strike-Threatening Train Drivers?
#10I would like to see all forms of transportation automated as long as it is proven safe. Trains have to be one of the easiest to automate since it runs on a track. If Google can automate a car which needs to avoid potholes, idiot drivers, construction, snow, rain, etc, I think we should be able to automate trains.
If Google can automate a car which needs to avoid potholes, idiot drivers, construction, snow, rain, etc Google hasn't done that (yet). http://googleblog.blogspot.hu/2012/08/the-self-driving-car-l...
Thanks for the link. I stand corrected.