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From YouTube comments, it seems was an experiment of 2023 with video only uploaded now. It also looks like was not that successful, as they were too slow, and ended up causing problems for the meat based drivers...
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Partly, that's because the luggage processing is very slow on international flights at Dulles. You have to go through immigration, which can be time consuming (though the automated ones are better of late). There's no reason you should get to baggage claim ahead of the baggage. Aside from that, though... I think it's just that it feels like an additional step. You want to get going -- especially if you're the sort of…
> They were a clever idea at the time, but they're hardly "lounges" these days. They're just buses, at a time when you really, really don't want to be taking a bus. Yeah they're definitely just buses that can open on each end at this point. They aspired to be lounges and they kind of convey (ha) what could have been. An actual automated mobile lounge isn't that crazy, right? Automation+batter power does make it more…
>> to investigate what the advantages of autonomous transport can be and what employees think of it. Lets not kid ourselves. The only real "advantage" would have been one less driver earning a paycheck. I've been on the airside passenger busses at Schipol. They move faster than the average bus. I cannot see this tiny thing ever competing with those pro drivers.
From YouTube comments, it seems was an experiment of 2023 with video only uploaded now. It also looks like was not that successful, as they were too slow, and ended up causing problems for the meat based drivers...
From one comment. Not comments. The rest of the pessimistic comments, like yours, are from a position lacking any experience of this vehicle.
Any chance we can get the title modified to read "Schiphol airport ..." as many won't know if this is a company, a town, or what until paragraph 4 of the press release?
>> to investigate what the advantages of autonomous transport can be and what employees think of it. Lets not kid ourselves. The only real "advantage" would have been one less driver earning a paycheck. I've been on the airside passenger busses at Schipol. They move faster than the average bus. I cannot see this tiny thing ever competing with those pro drivers.
Availability outside hours where it's not currently feasible to have a driver. Immunity to strikes, illness, and all those pesky complexities with meat and flesh
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From one comment. Not comments. The rest of the pessimistic comments, like yours, are from a position lacking any experience of this vehicle.
Dont blame the messenger. Why don't you fill us in on the project status?
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From one comment. Not comments. The rest of the pessimistic comments, like yours, are from a position lacking any experience of this vehicle.
Dont blame the messenger. Why don't you fill us in on the project status?
Self driving is a bit of a stretch here. There are already a lot locations around the world where autonomous vehicles are driving, even in the Nederlands. For example in the Netherlands there is a container terminal that has been using autonomous trucks for decades. And since 1999 there have been autonomous busses in Rotterdam. Yes they are self driving, but not as smart as self driving means today.