Elon Musk: Always A Douche

[Zanza]

AI trains would be great. No more strikes

Again incredible technological advancements have been made that in many ways mean AI wouldn't really be necessary for trains: tracks

I honestly do not understand why they don't replace the human with a machine there. Probably regulatory reasons.

[Barrister]

You know I occasionally click on right-wing click-baity tweets on Twitter just to see what is being said, but now Twitter just feeds me more and more of those kinds of tweets.  Ugh.

Take this one for example:

https://twitter.com/CollinRugg/status/1742996668944118243

JUST IN: Elon Musk obliterates Mark Cuban, asks him when he is going to hire a 'short white/Asian woman' on the Dallas Mavericks after Cuban challenged him about DEI.

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Cuban: "The loss of DEI-Phobic companies is my gain... Having a workforce that is diverse and representative of your stakeholders is good for business... blah blah blah."

Musk: "Cool, so when should we expect to see a short white/Asian women on the Mavs?"

Mic. Drop.

I read the entire thread - Cuban gave a very good explanation of diversity and inclusion, and to take Musk's childish one line reply as some kind of devastating comeback? 

[HVC]

No, that's true. Fair pay, benefits and conditions alleviate strikes

Never enough!


Mostly I just get really annoyed when public service strike. Still have a hate on for the garbage collectors strike. That ended up biting them on the ass though.

[Savonarola]

I honestly do not understand why they don't replace the human with a machine there. Probably regulatory reasons.

And safety concerns; we have to have fully redundant fail safe systems for everything.  If the AI failed we would need a human to drive the train.

(Although in Canada's case let's first get to track signaling before we go AI.)

[HVC]

I have faith in you Sav.

[The Brain]

I honestly do not understand why they don't replace the human with a machine there. Probably regulatory reasons.

And safety concerns; we have to have fully redundant fail safe systems for everything.  If the AI failed we would need a human to drive the train.

(Although in Canada's case let's first get to track signaling before we go AI.)

Do you have two human drivers now?

[Savonarola]

Do you have two human drivers now?

On all the projects I've worked on, yes, there's a full crew with multiple people capable of driving a train.  I've heard of other options like having a regular check in, or a dead man switch, so that if the conductor is incapacitated the train stops; but I've never worked with those myself.

[The Brain]

Do you have two human drivers now?

On all the projects I've worked on, yes, there's a full crew with multiple people capable of driving a train.  I've heard of other options like having a regular check in, or a dead man switch, so that if the conductor is incapacitated the train stops; but I've never worked with those myself.

AFAIK in Sweden there's only one driver.

[HisMajestyBOB]

Do you have two human drivers now?

On all the projects I've worked on, yes, there's a full crew with multiple people capable of driving a train.  I've heard of other options like having a regular check in, or a dead man switch, so that if the conductor is incapacitated the train stops; but I've never worked with those myself.

AFAIK in Sweden there's only one driver.

Damn, that driver must be pretty busy.

[The Brain]

Do you have two human drivers now?

On all the projects I've worked on, yes, there's a full crew with multiple people capable of driving a train.  I've heard of other options like having a regular check in, or a dead man switch, so that if the conductor is incapacitated the train stops; but I've never worked with those myself.

AFAIK in Sweden there's only one driver.

Damn, that driver must be pretty busy.

Not busy enough apparently, considering the delays.

[Tonitrus]

You guys are gonna go wild when you hear about trains

You're going to go mad when I tell you about VIA Rail...

That same route I just told you about: Edmonton to Winnipeg - travels twice per week.  The next train departs on Saturday at 7:50 pm, arriving Sunday at 10pm.  Cost is $311 for economy, $444 for a berth (coverts to a curtained sleeping area with two stacked beds).

That's compared to $562 for a flight on Westjet the same day (could probably be cheaper if flexible on the day) and would only take 6 hours (those are all with a connection in Calgary, there are direct flights as well).

6 hours versus 25 hours (driving would only take you about 13)...

I am sure another big reason people choose to drive is that want their car for local travel at their destination (and depending on the circumstances of their travel, a rental car might not be practical or affordable).  It would be cool to expand car-carrying train travel possibilities (Amtrak does this on one line on the east coast, from DC to Florida)...but that option would still be both slower, and probably even more expensive.*


*Just checked....two-week round trip would be about $900 (17-hour train trip...google estimates 12 hours by car)

Flight from DC to Orlando for the same time?  $250-ish (I won't even consider Spirit Airlines' $85 quote)

[Jacob]

So apparently Space X is suing the National Labour Relation Board, arguing that it's unconstitutional?

[Tonitrus]

Why not?  Probably a pretty good shot that this USSC will go along and axe it.

[Josquius]

You guys are gonna go wild when you hear about trains

You're going to go mad when I tell you about VIA Rail...

That same route I just told you about: Edmonton to Winnipeg - travels twice per week.  The next train departs on Saturday at 7:50 pm, arriving Sunday at 10pm.  Cost is $311 for economy, $444 for a berth (coverts to a curtained sleeping area with two stacked beds).

That's compared to $562 for a flight on Westjet the same day (could probably be cheaper if flexible on the day) and would only take 6 hours (those are all with a connection in Calgary, there are direct flights as well).

6 hours versus 25 hours (driving would only take you about 13)...

I am sure another big reason people choose to drive is that want their car for local travel at their destination (and depending on the circumstances of their travel, a rental car might not be practical or affordable).  It would be cool to expand car-carrying train travel possibilities (Amtrak does this on one line on the east coast, from DC to Florida)...but that option would still be both slower, and probably even more expensive.*


*Just checked....two-week round trip would be about $900 (17-hour train trip...google estimates 12 hours by car)

Flight from DC to Orlando for the same time?  $250-ish (I won't even consider Spirit Airlines' $85 quote)

With trains you don't need a car to get around the destination either.

[garbon]

With trains you don't need a car to get around the destination either.

Maybe if the destination is just a compact city centre?

Or I guess alternatively if one has endless time/patience to walk to further afield sights or figure out the local bus system (assuming one exists)?