I really don’t see the need to have a driver in a vehicle on rails.
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A lot (and I mean A LOT) of factors go into the safe and comfortable operation if a train.
First set of considerations are how many cars are actually loaded, how long each car is, and what type they are. This is for obvious reasons like weight, but also more obscure reasons like the amount of slack certain cars have in their knuckle and arms.
Next set of considerations are the grade of the track you’re on, the grade of the track the other parts of the train are on, and what future grades are going to be. These considerations factor in with the prior considerations, and so many are dependent on information a program wouldn’t have access to without a massive overhaul of the railcar industry, which if you know anything about rail, you’ve got a better chance of Paraguay taking over the world.
So AI trains are a no-go, because it takes a ton of dynamic abstract thought, and being a locomotive engineer is actually a pretty mentally intensive job when you’re doing more than running the same number of passenger cars across the same flat grade multiple times every day.
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