also note the inconsistency that cars are allowed to go self-driving in some circumstances (and those are expanding) while subways are not? even though subways are simpler and safer to automate because they literally only go forward, there’s no pedestrians crossing the road, etc.
Long sections of the Los Angeles Metro rail run “at-grade” meaning street level. Pedestrians have been killed at intersections and also by trying to cut across the tracks between official crossings because they’re spaced too far apart. Editing to add, cars have also been hit. There are signals and crossing arms but it’s possible to get around them. Not 100% sure if it’s better having a human in charge since they probably can’t stop and will feel bad. But if you’re automating, you’d need to program in Asimov’s 1st Law.
In the aviation world, we have this concept called Pilot In Command. The buck stops with the PIC, they are solely responsible for and the final authority as to the operation of the aircraft. Something goes wrong, it’s on the pilot. This is borrowed from the maritime industry.
Meanwhile, we’ve got driverless cars on the road right now with no clear legal authority over them.
also note the inconsistency that cars are allowed to go self-driving in some circumstances (and those are expanding) while subways are not? even though subways are simpler and safer to automate because they literally only go forward, there’s no pedestrians crossing the road, etc.
Long sections of the Los Angeles Metro rail run “at-grade” meaning street level. Pedestrians have been killed at intersections and also by trying to cut across the tracks between official crossings because they’re spaced too far apart. Editing to add, cars have also been hit. There are signals and crossing arms but it’s possible to get around them. Not 100% sure if it’s better having a human in charge since they probably can’t stop and will feel bad. But if you’re automating, you’d need to program in Asimov’s 1st Law.
You basically can’t automate unless you have full grade separation
In the aviation world, we have this concept called Pilot In Command. The buck stops with the PIC, they are solely responsible for and the final authority as to the operation of the aircraft. Something goes wrong, it’s on the pilot. This is borrowed from the maritime industry.
Meanwhile, we’ve got driverless cars on the road right now with no clear legal authority over them.
But just the 1st, we all know what happens when you implement all 3.
No… the problem is that they wouldn’t have an incentive or even the ability to implement them