I totally agree, and they can take care of the last mile problem for trains at both ends, making trains more practical.
And GP said, "If the solution is flawed even a little bit, people will die." Well, yes, and if humans drive, people will die.
If the flawed machines reach the point where they are provably statistically better than the flawed people who currently drive, lawsuits claiming that people who choose to drive and get in accidents are negligent will cause insurance companies to jack up the rates on "self-drivers".
That's where the state-change sigmoid curve will suddenly turn upward.
And GP said, "If the solution is flawed even a little bit, people will die." Well, yes, and if humans drive, people will die.
If the flawed machines reach the point where they are provably statistically better than the flawed people who currently drive, lawsuits claiming that people who choose to drive and get in accidents are negligent will cause insurance companies to jack up the rates on "self-drivers".
That's where the state-change sigmoid curve will suddenly turn upward.