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UK airport trials public autonomous transit

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Re: UK airport trials public autonomous transit

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Post by calpaterson »

"We're sorry but this site is not accessible from the UK as it is part of our international service and is not funded by the licence fee. It is run commercially by BBC Worldwide, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the BBC, the profits made from it go back to BBC programme-makers to help fund great new BBC programmes."

I'm sure there are excellent legal reasons why UK residents can't access BBC Worldwide content but it is really, really annoying

Re: UK airport trials public autonomous transit

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Post by mdda »

The irony(?) for me is that I'm a UK ex-pat (who has paid the UK license fee in the UK this year) living in Singapore. But my Singaporean ISP "helpfully" provides VPN connections so that I'm a local in foreign countries (so that I can use Pandora, for instance 'in New York'). So... I'm overseas, but I share all the problems of the UK residents, who are, understandably, also miffed.

PS: Having looked at the video (via the wayback machine) - is it the Sleeper that I'm reminded of? I'm getting deja vu with some 70s SciFi spoof...

Re: UK airport trials public autonomous transit

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Post by justincormack »

blutack wrote: post #2

For those of us in the UK who'd like to read an article about a UK airport written by a UK media organisation... http://web.archive.org/web/20140912134733/http://www.bbc.com...

Or there is Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ULTra_(rapid_transit)

Re: UK airport trials public autonomous transit

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Post by lukasm »

calpaterson wrote: post #3

"We're sorry but this site is not accessible from the UK as it is part of our international service and is not funded by the licence fee. It is run commercially by BBC Worldwide, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the BBC, the profits made from it go back to BBC programme-makers to help fund great new BBC programmes." I'm sure there are excellent legal reasons why UK residents can't access BBC Worldwide content but it is r…

> I'm sure there are excellent legal reasons

I can't think of an example.

Re: UK airport trials public autonomous transit

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Post by johneth »

calpaterson wrote: post #3

"We're sorry but this site is not accessible from the UK as it is part of our international service and is not funded by the licence fee. It is run commercially by BBC Worldwide, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the BBC, the profits made from it go back to BBC programme-makers to help fund great new BBC programmes." I'm sure there are excellent legal reasons why UK residents can't access BBC Worldwide content but it is r…

It's because of the BBC's 'Fair Trading Guidelines' - http://www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/insidethebbc/howwework/poli...

Re: UK airport trials public autonomous transit

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Post by Zigurd »

If the efficiency claims are true, it's pretty awesome.

There is a lot of public transportation that fails to be more efficient than cars because it is high-latency, failure prone, and doesn't handle peak and off-peak demand well.

Imagine replacing Boston's Green Line with a system like this. Always a pod to take you to whichever branch you want to go, now.

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