I'm sorry but there's a cultural barrier to self driving cars. The roads are open and free to anyone to go anywhere at anytime. You'd have to overcome the stigma of fear which would is not likely to go away soon.
Trains..there's a reason for the expression "railroaded".
As a teenager I came up with an idea for for an automated "people mover" that was essentially a train system where people walked onto increasingly faster people movers (like at airports, they look like flat, horizontal escalators at ground level). Since speed is relative you could move on and off faster and slower people movers quite easily and before you know it you were in DC.
Just a few years ago I heard the idea in an old radio show called X minus One, and it turns out Robert Heinlein had the exact same idea
Of course, planes increasingly fly themselves these days. But we have the illusion of pilots - those two people sleaping in the locked cabin in the front - and already we've had a few problems because of it.
Automation is definitely a trend in engineering right now, I can verify that as an sw engineer who's job it was to automate his process.
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On another note, you knpw what's a lot safer than delivery by drone? Pneumatic tubes.
*Sigh*, when will you all learn that Humanity Has Risen just wants to abolish progress and live in the biblical stone age? Every post of his confirms this hilarious belief system of his. Why do you guys even bother?
If you want entertainment from right-wing loonies just turn on Fox News. At least they are somewhat entertaining when they speak their nonsense.
leave your willful ignorance on the P&R boards. Thanks.
I was just talking to my mom about this the other day.
Hey, there's another thing GG didn't bring up. The eventual disappearance of parents.