Driverless trains

>I personally don't think computers will be advanced enough to react and respond to dangerous situations or accidents for a long time.
They already are. It's just the cost of automatic systems and people's distrust in them that keeps fully automatic systems from being implemented.

>>56288743
>And if so, when?

As soon as we fucking destroy that fucking RMT. DLR is already driverless. There is literally no reason for trains to have drivers or people on stations saying okay take off now. Robots can do it all.

People prefer a human driver or at least a human oversee-er.
And it's completely reasonable.
Nobody want to die due to a stupid bag.

I ride a driverless train every day.

>>56288849
I would very much prefer robot drivers so garbage like this doesn't happen.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-37128426

>A driver on a Ramadan fast had not eaten for 16 hours before his train was derailed, a report has found.

There is pretty much never a time I will trust a human over a machine in these cases.

>>56288821
DLR is light rail and was designed to be driverless from the start.
When you have 100mph killing machine weighing hundreds of tons with no human oversight the stakes are higher.

>>56288866
This.

Driverless trains are the present.

>>56288906
Except a lot of train accidents are due to human error, even when some retard jumps the tracks, it's still humans.

When some retard runs a red light on a one way pass straight into the oncoming train, it's driver error.

Also if your country uses 1 rail lane for both incoming and ongoing trains, FUCK YOUR RAILWAYS. Two lane rail should be mandatory so retards don't do stupid shit.

>>56288991
>Two lane rail should be mandatory

Highly inefficient and beyond retarded.

>>56288991
>>56289005
It depends on traffic. My local rail still has one rail for certain routes (most are getting upgraded as we are speaking) and it's worked well. But since population is increasing, and thus train travel with it, upgrade is necessary.

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>>56288743
Yes

Robots taking over jobs and unemployment is the future.

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>>56288884
RELIGION
OF
STARVATION-INDUCED ACCIDENTS

>driverless cars, trains and planes are a reality
>printers still need drivers

>>56289841
>2016
>Printers still need maintenance engineers
>Price of ink has gone up every year

>>56288743
>Are driverless trains the future?
certainly

>>56288821
isn't there an operator with key/switch just to change train modes, i mean to just check that everything's ok?

>>56288849
>People prefer a human driver or at least a human oversee-er.
because of this "overseers" in my country there's few derailments every year and every one of them costs few million bucks.

>>56288906
>100mph killing machine weighing hundreds of tons
you can't be this retarded. pneumatic brakes are fail-secure so loss of pressure would actually apply them.
Moden tram can decelerate at 0.25G easily. Every axle or even every wheel has its own brake.

>>56288991
i support of this anon >>56289005 it's WAY to expensive.
there's literally no fucking reason. that's why signalling was invented/developed


However at least in europe the problem is ETCS lv3 is stuck in development hell. Costs of implementing Lv2 are fucking massive because of jews at Bombardier, Siemens and Thales. and Lv2 stil does not provide "moving block" capability.
It's fucking dead on arrival