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Re:Airbus' self-flying plane just completed taxi, take-off, ... by sandworm101 on Monday July 27, 2020 @10:38PM (#23971767)
>> Automated trains are just like elevators, except they move horizontally.

Really? I haven't heard of any elevators killing dozens of people lately. I haven't seen many elevators crash, burst into flames and effectively remove entire city blocks from the map. I haven't heard of people studying elevator operators for PTSD.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/eb/Lac_mega...

"Traumatic exposure and posttraumatic symptoms for train drivers involved in railway incidents"

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4462444/

>>Because of involuntary exposure to PUT [Person Under Train] incidents, the likelihood of train drivers to witness the violent death of a person is much higher than that of the general population, and that puts the train driver at risk of psychological trauma.

>>Of the 193 train drivers, 152 (78.75%) reported at least one PUT incident. Respondents reported as much as 14 PUT incidents/person, with a mean of 4 (SD = 2.83) incidents/train driver.

In all honesty, a train driver is more likely to see someone die violently in front of them in a given year than the average soldier.

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Re:Airbus' self-flying plane just completed taxi, take-off, ... by dwd on Monday July 27, 2020 @11:42PM (#23972061)
All the more reason to take train drivers out of the picture.
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Re:Airbus' self-flying plane just completed taxi, take-off, ... by kiba on Monday July 27, 2020 @11:52PM (#23972102)
Doesn't solve the problem of people using trains to commit suicide, which isn't certainly going to be solved by any amount of automation.
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Re:Airbus' self-flying plane just completed taxi, take-off, ... by clusterfish on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @12:05AM (#23972185)
So? Nobody said that it would, just that drivers won't suffer the associated ptsd.
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Re:Airbus' self-flying plane just completed taxi, take-off, ... by dwd on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @04:45AM (#23973714)
Need some of the mitigations they use in Japan like calming blue lighting at the platform ends, full length barriers and gates.
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Re:Airbus' self-flying plane just completed taxi, take-off, ... by numpad0 on Monday July 27, 2020 @10:56PM (#23971864)
“Trains” and “automated trains” practically are two distinct concepts like “cars” and “golf cars”
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Re:Airbus' self-flying plane just completed taxi, take-off, ... by tialaramex on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @12:49AM (#23972382)
An eggcorn maybe?

The vehicle you're probably thinking of is a golf cart.

A Golf Car is a popular model of motor vehicle from Vauxhall.

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