Re:AI Is About To Take The Ship's Helm Away From Humans
by m0zg on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @10:58PM
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Sure, there are autonomous trains in some places, I said so right in my post. But why aren't _all_ of them autonomous by now?
Re:AI Is About To Take The Ship's Helm Away From Humans
by sho on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @11:20PM
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The technology's only really been perfected in the last 10 or 20 years, well below the normal replacement cycle for this kind of heavy infrastructure. Give it time - it's inevitable.
Re:AI Is About To Take The Ship's Helm Away From Humans
by jboles on Friday January 18, 2019 @07:04PM
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Because railway lines, in the past, were not designed with autonomous operation in mind. It’s really only suitable for completely isolated systems (high speed bullet-train style lines walled off from their surroundings, or Western Australian iron ore trains miles away from anyone) or lightweight metro/subway style trains (e.g. DLR, airport “air trains”) that travel at low speeds or can stop quickly.
Re:AI Is About To Take The Ship's Helm Away From Humans
by Piskvorrr on Thursday January 17, 2019 @05:10AM
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Upgrading is hard, retrofitting is harder (e.g. NYC subway runs on a century-old technology), and most importantly, it all comes with a hefty price tag, all for an incremental improvement only. Follow the money.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_automated_urban_metro_...
If you are talking about intercity trains instead of metro systems - although metros typically handle many times the number of passengers - China is currently trialling driverless technologies on its Fuxing class HSR on the Beijing-Zhangjiakou route with expected entry into service by 2022.