O L Leigh
Established Member
I really cant see that being a problem. Any such driverless train will have an on board camera. This will use image recognition to assess what the obstruction is and decide on course of action. Image recognition is getting scarily clever. Also the picture will be sent back to control who would be alerted to an incident and can view and take action.
Wow!! An onboard camera, you say? Fantastic.
I'm sorry, but image recognition only goes so far. The train isn't filling in an I-Spy book so there's no point it simply knowing the difference between a horse and a car. It's got to make an assessment of risk and formulate a plan of action based on what it can "see", and that level of decision making requires far greater levels of intelligence than has yet been attained.
Do you know, the one thing that I really love about this forum is that there seems to be no shortage of people here who know my job better than me. Where would I be without the guidance of these wise sages? Thank goodness my manager is happy enough with my performance at work and the competencies that I'm required to maintain.
O L Leigh