i don't know about self-driveing..
what would be far-better and far-easier, is just to use electrical buses instead of those diesel never-ever-turned-off 24/7 smoke-producers-on-wheels. in all airports. poor or Rich..
but no.
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#72As people already mention positive aspects about Schiphol. The new hand luggage scanners allow you to finally take liquids of any volume with you, forget max 100ml sized containers. One of the few airports that has them afaik
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Ah come on this attitude doesn't belong here.
It does. This is a pervasive problem on this site. Also the SV centric mindset, elitism, etc.
It's absolutely nauseating, and I'm constantly disgusted that the admins, as well as users like you, stifle criticism of these sentiments.
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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. Somewhat OT, but I just realized I've never flown internationally from Dulles. I've flown internationally a fair amount, and I've flown fro…
IAD is the only airport I've been to where I've spent an hour at immigration and then walked through to the luggage claims hall to find that my airline's ground handler still hadn't loaded bags from my flight on the carousel (note this was a full hour at least after arrival) so I had to wait even longer there! Every other port I've had long immigration processing, the good thing was my bags were usually already on th…
Immigration at Dulles is faster than it used to be, at least for Americans. They're expanding the automated system, with a lot of kiosks. (I'm not entirely sure how that's different from GlobalEntry.)
Which just gives you more time to wait for your bags, I'm afraid. They're building a lot of new infrastructure which might help eventually.
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#75>> 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.
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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
Complex human flesh is the point of all this stuff we make and do, maybe we shouldn’t put all that meat out of a job for no good economic reason? Busses, trains, ships, etc don’t need to be automated, one or a few professional humans can operate those cheaper and safer than an advanced AI system.
Just seems like a stupid thing for those humans to have to do, unless they really like driving out of leisure
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They're made of meat?
Totally: https://youtu.be/T6JFTmQCFHg
Originally by Terry Bisson, 1991:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They're_Made_Out_of_Meat
* https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/think...