Ford CEO says the company 'overestimated' self-driving cars

Re:Ford CEO says the company 'overestimated' self-driving cars by treis on Friday April 12, 2019 @04:42PM (#19648771)

>With CTBC some platforms can run at 60 trains per hour (30 local, 30 express). That's 8 subway cars every 2 minutes, or approximately 1,000 people per minute.

Unless your trains are going at 10 kph you will have more of a gap than 300 meters if you see a train every 2 minutes.

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Re:Ford CEO says the company 'overestimated' self-driving cars by jacques_chester on Friday April 12, 2019 @06:07PM (#19649490)

Or the trains can move much faster and much closer because of improved control.

You should recognise this argument: it's the same logic given for why self-driving will solve everything.

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Re:Ford CEO says the company 'overestimated' self-driving cars by treis on Friday April 12, 2019 @10:57PM (#19650822)

But you're always limited by loading time. If you take X seconds at each stop then you will end up with X * speed distance between each car. Even at 30s loading and 50 kph you're looking at 400 meters between each train.

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