fishmech posted:

robot train has been a thing in canada and america since the late 60s

incels interlinked posted:

i see tori is back and everyone is arguing about transportation again. balance has returned to yospos

Notorious b.s.d. posted:

metros, as a thing, are wildly different from operating a freight train in the middle of America's great western desolation

1. they're heavily instrumented -- the track itself knows where the trains are
2. all traffic on the metro is controlled by the metro's owner

class 1 railroads are a hugely different space. all the "brains," so to speak, are in the cab of the train. traffic is heterogeneous and not very predictable. it's 100% up to the engineers to avoid killing themselves or other people

as far as automation goes it's much more, uh, car-like

fishmech posted:

twitter threads are garbage and unreadable

Cat Face Joe posted:

fear is the profit killer

fishmech posted:

robot train

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

The country in general is getting high off sniffing the tech industry’s farts, we’ve got the media talking about how robots and AI are going to change everything when AI doesn’t exist and robots are dumb as gently caress. A hospital chain here is running ads that show their hospital ORs with hologram tanks and poo poo. People think Amazon is going to deliver stuff via drone despite the fact that large drones have a 25-35 minute battery life. People are completely out of touch with reality.

Notorious b.s.d. posted:

where

again, i am not talking about a subway train or something. i'm talking about freight. class 1 railroad examples pls

fishmech posted:

no it doesn't. when i was in the ufcw we supported them because they don't shift employment in a harmful way (Stores that try to cut staffing because they get them in are stores that end up with them constantly breaking becasue you need to have people on hand to monitor each set and that's why you had poo poo like a lotta walmarts and other non union stores bringing them in, cutting staff, than removing their self checkouts in a huff and rehiring people)

Shame Boy posted:

everyone who got replaced by a robot can just get a job as a robot repairman like in the bad willy wonka

fishmech posted:

oh look the little baby doesn't understand that it's the same principles, and freight railroads are unwilling to spend the billions of dollars required to upgrade long distance routes to suitable standards, since really all they'd be saving is the pay of a single member on a 2 or 3 person crew. iirc it was in 1962 that Canadian National rail implemented a few hundred kilometer stretch of automated freight service in test operation through manitoba or alberta, and used it for revenue service from terminal to terminal - and simply didn't see any evidence it would be worth it to extend to national service.

we invented it decades ago and we know precisely how to do it, it's just not practical. that first automated line in montreal in 67 was also removed from automated use because it wasn't worth keeping beyond the expo, the first automated rail line in the states also has long insisted on running at least one manual run per operator per day just in case their automated systems ever broke down.

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

The UN outright came out and said we’re all gonna fuckin die by 2050 in large part due to our mobile pollution spewers and people still can’t get off the driving addiction. There will be literal public executions if anyone tries to reduce driving via legislation.

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

The UN outright came out and said we’re all gonna fuckin die by 2050 in large part due to our mobile pollution spewers and people still can’t get off the driving addiction. There will be literal public executions if anyone tries to reduce driving via legislation.

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

The UN outright came out and said we’re all gonna fuckin die by 2050 in large part due to our mobile pollution spewers and people still can’t get off the driving addiction. There will be literal public executions if anyone tries to reduce driving via legislation.

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

the climate report says that's when we'll first really start seeing the effects of climate change if nothing is done

granted, nothing is likely to be done to extend that by much, but that's "just" when we begin seeing coral reefs get bleached to death and stuff

Notorious b.s.d. posted:

it's stupid to conflate the two

one is a dumb gadget that works fine but isn't useful for anything, and the other one doesn't loving exist.

(why is it the one that doesn't exist solicits billions of dollars in investment and fawning puff pieces from newspapers?)

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

https://twitter.com/RochelleRitchie/status/1055867631461416962

Shame Boy posted:

he got caught because he checked the tracking info of the packages on his cell phone

mystes posted:

Source?

El_Elegante posted:

i know im a hosed up human being, so is it weird that i find that van less creepy than some airbrushed vans?

El_Elegante posted:

i know im a hosed up human being, so is it weird that i find that van less creepy than some airbrushed vans?

El_Elegante posted:

i know im a hosed up human being, so is it weird that i find that van less creepy than some airbrushed vans?

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

Yes

Shame Boy posted:

one guy had an entire nativity scene bolted to the top that would light up at night, and all the windows were covered with lots and lots of rambling about jesus and the end times and repenting, that was fun to watch drive by

Shame Boy posted:

Peeny Cheez posted:

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

you


vs the guy she told you not to worry about

El_Elegante posted:

he steal your girl?