If self driving is so easy, why aren’t there self driving autonomous trains? No turning, no cross traffic, no pedestrians, no merging….should be a lot easier to develop than cars. So where are they? Is it the unions blocking it?
Autonomous Metro trains are state of the art for more than ten years, but not erverywhere.
I avoid planes, but not hostesses.
Nope, not in the real world. There's another world out there that provides us with options to avoid the supposed 'future of mobility' (to use today's Euro buzz word du jour). My plane is a good example: zero automation and it will continue to take me to a lot of places indefinitely without anybody watching, tracking, knowing, caring or taxing. Just me and the natural, free, real world.
Authoritarian visions and values in relation to forced mass transit, limited EV range and annoying mandated 'safety' gadgetry have nothing to do with my future, nor that of many others. However feel free to pull the blinders close over your eyes and search for ever greater levels of compliance in your own life, if that's what you like to do
The difference is today's ever accelerating imposition of regulations (now), versus market driven change (then). The reason for that is that few would buy these ideas and technologies otherwise, unlike when the automobile replaced the horse cart. The underlying purpose of the regulations is to limit problems with the ever larger population of taxpayers that not by coincidence feeds the same self serving, growing authoritarian government that creates them. It is a regressive approach in relation to both good governance and reducing impact on the environment.
By the way over the next 15 or 20 years some may buckle under and use automated public transport mobility like a early 20th century European peasant, I'll be flying my plane above you with the radio turned off, going wherever I please. I won't be driving a self-driving EV to the airport either. Not everybody wants to go backwards.
The difference is today's ever accelerating imposition of regulations (now), versus market driven change (then). The reason for that is that few would buy these ideas and technologies otherwise, unlike when the automobile replaced the horse cart. The underlying purpose of the regulations is to limit problems with the ever larger population of taxpayers that not by coincidence feeds the same self serving, growing authoritarian government that creates them. It is a regressive approach in relation to both good governance and reducing impact on the environment.
By the way over the next 15 or 20 years some may buckle under and use automated public transport mobility like a early 20th century European peasant, I'll be flying my plane above you with the radio turned off, going wherever I please. I won't be driving a self-driving EV to the airport either. Not everybody wants to go backwards.
Up until now, How does that sit with a driver less taxi- your not going to leap over the seats are you? Self flying Planes & Helicoptors for military are in the offing, the helicoptors ( I know) will have no cockpit or manual controls so your going down. Ironically, hostesses will not be phased out- but they are no longer bilingual, public school , posh totty they tend to be effeminate chubby blokes with eyeliner…
Phew, thankfully we’ll still have someone to show us how to operate the seatbelts!
Yes, but what about the 'SBD' farts?
Some insurance companies in California already offer, on a strictly voluntary basis at this time, 'black box' type recorders which record your every action. If you are a 'good driver,' you get a discount on your Insurance premiums; if you're like me, well, I'm fucked. The key takeaway is: ' At this time, it is voluntary.'If the theme of this thread (newfangled gadgets, techno, AI and the like) is anything to go by it can't be long before the skies are well and truly monitored - same way some time soon you won't be able to drive anything on any road without it being registered and fitted with a total tracking and recording system that knows ... everything ... like just how fast you went on that little ride through the hills!
It was Boeing.
Tell the family of the dead motorcyclist " Yeah , well an electric car does catch fire now and again , you know ........ one for one and all that ......" ........
In Toulouse, where I live, the metro is already automated, and it works well in terms of the distance covered.
Writing that an automated car had a defect leading to the death of a motorcyclist whilst dozens more were being killed by defects in car drivers is like pointing out that an electric car is burning whilst thousands of petrol cars are burning.
