interesting, i think the supervisory role is probably most relevant for trains. wouldn’t that still be super difficult for one person to monitor 4 planes/cars at the same time?
the benefit with trains is that there aren’t many external environmental variables to consider.
211 sats \ 0 replies \ @freetx 24 Jan
Well I think it could be arranged so out of the 4 trucks, only 1 could require active supervision at a time. Like 2 could be going down empty interstate, 1 is being unloaded/loaded somewhere, and 1 with active remote driver in city.
Also even if the truck needed to pull over on side of road for 20 mins until the human could take control, that would still probably be a big win compared to labor cost of 4 humans.
But yeah, trains seem like the slam dunk (but I don't know anything about the complexity of driving trains)
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