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    Quote Originally Posted by Crepitus View Post
    So if driverless cars are safe why are we still required to have human operators on commuter trains?
    That's probably going to change as well.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Standing Wolf View Post
    A human driver on the shuttle bus could have backed out of the way or laid on the horn to get the semi driver's attention. This was not a high speed accident; passengers on the bus were quoted as saying they looked up and said to one another, "That truck is going to hit us".

    Statistics about potential accident reduction are fine - but those numbers will mean exactly squat to the survivors of the first person killed because a driverless vehicle didn't prevent a serious accident that a driver might have been able to.
    All of this information is returned back to the programmers who will undoubtedly add new subroutines to allow for just this sort of scenario.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dr. Who View Post
    That's probably going to change as well.
    I should have been more specific. We already have fully automated commuter trains that require a human operator because they mess up so often.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Crepitus View Post
    I should have been more specific. We already have fully automated commuter trains that require a human operator because they mess up so often.
    That's either due to bad programming or bad infrastructure/equipment.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dr. Who View Post
    That's either due to bad programming or bad infrastructure/equipment.
    Have you seen some of the clunkers driving around out there?
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