Re:TfL abandons plans for driverless tube trains
by thaumasiotes on Saturday November 30, 2024 @05:44AM
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That's a different argument about the third pilot.
I'm just pointing out that while my parent was correct that the argument failed as a justification for two pilots, it doesn't fail for any other number. It's similar to the proof that all horses are the same color.
Re:TfL abandons plans for driverless tube trains
by JumpCrisscross on Saturday November 30, 2024 @06:02AM
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> while my parent was correct that the argument failed as a justification for two pilots, it doesn't fail for any other number
It doesn't fail as much as not work. One can always come up with hypotheticals justifying more redundancy. Whether that's worth the tradeoff requires actually looking at the facts.
To stop one crash in decades amidst hundreds of thousands of flights per day [1]? If you place that high of a value on a human life, there are better optimisations to do first at much lower cost.
[1] https://financesonline.com/number-of-flights-worldwide/