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[–] [S] 31 points 1 week ago (2 children)

What about driverless trains?

Double less crashes.

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  • [–] [S] 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    I honestly doubt it, since the vast majority of crashes occur when there's something not working (e.g. signal won't turn to green, track detection system not working) - scenarios where driverless trains need human intervention anyway.

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  • [–] [S] 13 points 1 week ago (1 child)
  • [–] [S] 8 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    You think people would do that? Go onto the internet and tell jokes?

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    There was very nasty train crash in Spain a few years ago because the driver was speeding and the train derailed.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 week ago (9 children)

    Exceptions prove the rule. On top of that, that crash occurred on the border between two train control systems (ETCS and ASFA, if I remember correctly), where there ended up being quite a gap in train protection. As much as the problem was the speeding driver, it was also a dangerous gap in train control where whoever planned it really screwed up.

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  • [–] [S] 26 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Also, humans driving cars, because it's pretty easy to have fewer 'crashes' when you just omit a heap of crashes.

    “the analysis excluded minor incidents involving Waymos that would likely not have been reported to the police had a human been driving,”

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  • [–] [S] 15 points 1 week ago

    ¯_(ツ)_/¯ I get your point but also I get their point, they are trying to make the data comparable to the data they are comparing too. It just so happens it makes them look better too.

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  • [–] [S] 23 points 1 week ago (6 children)

    As a European, I hope this shit stays off of our streets forever.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 child)

    Those by definition can't exist - a bicycle must be powered through muscles for a significant portion, about 25-50% at least. Even electric bicycles still are mainly muscle-powered.

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  • [–] [S] 27 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    And do you know what trains and trams crash into? Its not other trains and trams...

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  • [–] [S] 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 child)

    Actually in my city a tram crashed on another tram literally two days ago. Also train hitting trains is a thing. But yes, trams and trains crashing into trams and trains because the tram/train driver's action sure is near zero compared to the number of trams crashing into cars because of the car driver's action.

    Edit: so today another crash happened here, must be a shitty week for whoever insures these people:

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  • [–] [S] 11 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Interesting. Same data in USA says the robo taxis were almost twice as likely per million miles (I last checked few months to half a year ago) to be in incident as human drivers.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    As usual, Musk is most likely the one skewing the statistics.

    His cars, whether on commercial "full self driving" mode (which it isn't, at all) or whether they're the commercial robo-taxis, have all kinds of driving and safety issues. Almost everyone other than Musk has very few issues.

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  • [–] [S] 18 points 1 week ago

    wait hear me out. what if the driverless cars had special roads built for them and they were larger so they could carry more passangers!

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 1 week ago

    But if you're on rails, how are you supposed to steer out of the way of obstacles? That would never work

    -Some politician probably

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 week ago*

    The problem is Americans hate other Americans. And they’d rather do the hating from inside their own death cage.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 week ago

    Our local LRT crashes into cars so regularly, there's a tally on the subreddit sidebar.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 week ago

    I wish all the money poured into AI instead went into mass transit.

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