what train drivers do

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Considering the advancement of technology, what are the things they do that can’t be replaced by automation?

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As someone who works with camera vision systems a lot, they are not nearly as good as human eyes. Differing light conditions, unusually shaped objects, people with suspicious postures.. all of that is really hard to compute around.

Machine Vision works best in really repeatable conditions with things the machine has seen before. Humans are highly adaptable to weird things happening.

So in reality we use both, we bolt a camera underneath the train with a specific light to shine on the tracks looking for damage to the metal, but we use a driver to watch out for unusual weather and suicide attempts

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