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Self-driving Waymo cars keep SF residents awake all night by honking at each other (arstechnica.com)

submitted 3 months ago by Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] _edge@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The only reason trains are not self-driving is humans designed the whole system in a too complicated way. Trains had all the ingredients for safe self-driving for decades.

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

In the US a few decades ago the big rail companies were given the ultimatum to upgrade their safety infrastructure or have a national speed limit of 79 mph imposed on them.

Guess which they did?