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Self-driving Waymo cars keep SF residents awake all night by honking at each other (arstechnica.com)
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[โ€“] _edge@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 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.

[โ€“] turmacar@lemmy.world 8 points 2 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?