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White background meme with the text “People want to build a massive connected network of driverless cars to ‘solve’ traffic. Doesn’t that sound a bit like giving SkyNet control of all the nukes?”

There are illustrative images of the proposed “network of driverless cars” as well as a menacing image of a terminator robot and an image from a news report about a deadly crash caused by a self-driving Uber.

  • Fried_out_Kombi@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Waaaaay easier. We already have numerous automated metro systems in the world, from Copenhagen Metro to Vancouver SkyTrain to Montreal REM to Honolulu Skyline to airport people movers galore to probably a whole bunch more systems I can’t name off the top of my head.

    Having rails, dedicated infrastructure, and a grade-separated right-of-way works wonders for eliminating variables. You don’t even need AI for automated trains.