Interesting Links for 30-11-2024

[andrewducker]

1. Car tires shed a quarter of all microplastics in the environment. (6 million tons per year)

(tags:plastic pollution cars transport )

2. What happens next to bill on assisted dying?

(tags:law uk death suicide )

3. Ridiculous sports you probably didn't know existed

(tags:sports video wtf )

4. Upgrading the London Underground for driverless trains would cost tens of billions to save hundreds of millions per year, taking centuries to pay off

(tags:transport tube London automation )

Comments

[toothycat]

Driverless trains aside, signal passed at danger should not be a thing that is possible. We've had the tech for decades. It is 2024. Trains should brake automatically when passing a red light. Tech isn't complicated, and can be retrofitted. Other countries do this.

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[danieldwilliam]

If driverless trains very very expensive because you need to change lots of other things to make them work that implies that the cost-benefit calculation might be more favourable if you already had to replace all the rolling stock on a line. Which is a once in a 50 (?) year event for each line. Certainly decades.

During which time there will improvements in automation and other changes to how things work.

Seems like a wait and see approach is the right one.