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Re:Ask HN: What are the most important problems in your indu... by franciscop on Thursday April 20, 2017 @12:59PM (#14158481)
3. Automation? Depends on the transport it could be 5 years away (trains/similar) or 20-30 years away (buses/similar). Of course the trains/similar is more of a people issue than technical (;
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Re:Ask HN: What are the most important problems in your indu... by dflock on Friday April 21, 2017 @12:55PM (#14167230)
For trains, automation already happened - in the 80's. London's DLR and Vancouver's skytrain are examples of mostly automated, completely driverless, metro systems - built in the 80's.

Afaik, the Vancouver skytrain still uses the original OS/2 software to run.

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Re:Ask HN: What are the most important problems in your indu... by siscia on Thursday April 20, 2017 @02:38PM (#14159499)
New metro lines are usually completely automatic here in (I guess) Europe.
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