• conditional_soup@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I’m not 100% sure about that. Can you give me a little context as to where your knowledge comes from? Railroaders I’ve seen discussing fully automated trains seemed to have some doubts about the viability of the technology.

    • bluGill@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Many passenger trains around the world run fully automated.

      the big issue is without someone on board there is nobody to see someone on the tracks and hit the emergency brake. My counter to that is it doesn’t matter as the train won’t stop until long after whoever was on the track is hit and dead.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Passenger trains generally don’t go that fast in areas where they’re likely to hit something or derail. Which is not what rail executives want.