https://www.railwayage.com/analytics/journey-to-ato/?RAchannel=safety
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Airlines are doing it.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-10/will-you-fly-when-your-pilot-is-a-robot
It is possible to operate an aircraft remotely (drones), or to have a single pilot in the c—pit and let software do the flying. Airlines don't do so for obvious reasons.
UP likes to compare itself to NASA and the Military, except for when it comes to the additional fail-safes that come with redundancy. There is no way to calculate the money saved by the disasters prevented thanks to having more than one person in the locomotive. Redundancy isn't always profitable, but it can (and does) save lives.
Bullshiiit
i Guess you have to go autonomous when nobody wants to work for ur company
It saves them big in the long term. One crew alone costs close to $300k/yr. That’s one crew per year. Multiply that times the number of crews. Most of the required hard and software is already onboard. Autonomous trains will be here soon. Don’t be foolish and try to convince yourselves otherwise. It’s for your own good to accept it and plan accordingly.
Contractors!
I hope they don’t forget to program the software to be able complain about the toilet smell!
They think going fully autonomous is going to improve business I’m guessing they forget they still have to spend the money to make their equipment that way still requires employees to maintain and install that hardware and maintenance the locomotives even if it’s not as many still cost them in the longterm. Can’t spell stupid without UP