Commercial airlines are 95% pilot-less. Even take-off and landing. Exceptions for weather, some specific airports, and emergencies.
Davew On Wed, Sep 8, 2021, at 3:28 PM, Steve Smith wrote: > Jochen - > > Yes, Amtrak is the primary passenger rail in the US. I believe there are > myriad local if not regional passenger rail options, especially on the East > Coast. I believe that Amtrak is technically privately owned but as "the only > game in town" for long haul passenger service it depends heavily on > Government subsidy/franchise. > > Regarding driverless everything. A friend of mine recently made the point > that this is what we do as modern humans (meaning since neolithic or maybe > just agriculture or perhaps industrial era) is to build things to replace > ouselves. The ultimate pinnacle will perhaps be post-humanism in the > extreme? > > Driverless trains make a lot more sense than driverless cars. Even pilotless > airlines would seem so since things are so constrained in air (and rail > moreso) travel. Driverless cars make a lot of sense to me also, but how to > get from here to there... I suspect the hardest thing for driverless cars to > cope with is cars with human drivers! > >> Amtrak is the national railroad in the US ? President Joe Biden has been a >> frequent user of Amtrak trains >> https://www.businessinsider.com/amtrak-joe-brief-history-of-bidens-history-americas-railroad-2021-4 >> >> We have an island at the North Sea where we go every year on vacation. It is >> about 500 km (310 miles) from Berlin. Usually we go by train, but this year >> the train drivers are on strike so we took a car instead. I believe in the >> near future train drivers will be obsolete anyway, because driverless trains >> are the future. Years ago I have seen self-checkout systems in supermarkets >> in London, and now they appear everywhere in Berlin, replacing salesmen. I >> believe it will be similar for driverless trains. I have seen impressive >> driverless trains in Copenhagen, Denmark, but not yet in Berlin >> https://www.equaltimes.org/driverless-trains-are-coming-but?lang=en >> >> -J. >> >> >> -------- Original message -------- >> From: Steve Smith <sasm...@swcp.com> >> Date: 9/7/21 22:36 (GMT+01:00) >> To: friam@redfish.com >> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Nick has gone dark >> >> Mary and I are reading a biography of HD Thoreau and I feel like I have a >> better bead on who the heck NST is from getting a slightly better bead on >> that aspect of small town New England's history/perspective. Neither of >> us have spent more than glancing careens through New England population >> centers in our lives. >> >> We were on our way to visit a friend on the coast of Maine with an intention >> of crashing Nick's front porch party on the way by, for some egg-salad >> sandwiches when Mary's back went sideways. We've been doing urgent >> care/medical imaging/accupuncture/physical therapy instead. She's >> recovering well and may likely avoid surgery. >> >> It is just as well with COVID spiking again... we were planning an Amtrak >> run supplemented by a rental car and might have been able to avoid the worst >> of the gambit ( not so much our own risk, but the risk of stirring pots best >> left under-stirred and becoming vectors ourselves ). >> >> I read that Amtrak style travel clocks in at 1/2 the carbon footprint of >> air-travel... I'm surprised it is not better. In either case, it doesn't >> fit well into my aspiration of joining (spiritually) the 2000 Watt Society >> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000-watt_society>. The more formidable >> target of a 500W Society (to achieve a carbon-neutral humanity with lots of >> assumptions) doesn't likely leave any room for long-distance travel unless >> it is roughly by-foot (bring back the Mormon Handcart >> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormon_pioneers#Travel_conditions>?) Maybe >> DaveW can get a friend to haul him into his favorite hot-spring that way >> without the noise and erosion and fumes of an ATV? >> >> On 9/7/21 2:14 PM, Jochen Fromm wrote: >>> My domain has expired this week too and my email account stopped to work, >>> but I was able to renew it. Hope you are online again soon! >>> >>> -J. >>> >>> >>> -------- Original message -------- >>> From: Nicholas Thompson <thompnicks...@gmail.com> >>> Date: 9/7/21 19:46 (GMT+01:00) >>> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com> >>> Subject: [FRIAM] Nick has gone dark >>> >>> I fried my network adapter, so I will have no network connectivity at least >>> until friday. Possibly, longer if it turns out to be a software problem. >>> Didn't want anybody to think I didn't love them. If you need to talk, best >>> to call me at 413-477-6602. 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