Christmas travel chaos - time for robots to take over public transport

Way I see it you buy the robot on contract that replaces you it earns your wage less its maintainence wnd finance cost.

You keep the rest and do whatever.

Automation without the annoyed redundancies
 
Mysterae_ said:
I can understand the sentiment and AI seems the solution on first glance but a few days minutes watching the public you'd think again.

There was an instance with Japan's bullet train where a child ran on to the train and the mother grabbed him to pull him out. However, the doors shut on her, trapping her arm. The train could have departed killing the woman but Japan Railways have a manual safety procedure called "Shisa Kanko" that saved her and has prevented many other unwanted situations.

I'd rather take the odds of a rail strike over the possibility of the system being hacked or being programmed by Microsoft.
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is shisa kanko Japanese for an interlock? That won't let the train drive with the door open.

The inverse of that argument is "remember when the tube driver opened the doors on the wrong side"
 
Tefal said:
is shisa kanko Japanese for an interlock? That won't let the train drive with the door open.

The inverse of that argument is "remember when the tube driver opened the doors on the wrong side"
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The technique is called shisa kanko, a Japanese phrase meaning 'point with finger and call'. It has been described as a practical demonstration of the Buddhist concept of mindfulness. A train driver, using shisa kanko, would not simply glance at a display to perform a required speed check.
 
GaryTheSnail said:
The technique is called shisa kanko, a Japanese phrase meaning 'point with finger and call'. It has been described as a practical demonstration of the Buddhist concept of mindfulness. A train driver, using shisa kanko, would not simply glance at a display to perform a required speed check.
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You can rely on the Japanense to over embellish a basic activity.

Pointing your finger and calling based on the Buddhist concept of mindfulness; priceless.
 
Get a car

Public transport is utter ****

Especially trains. I don't know how people rely on them. My partner has to take a train 4 times a year. 1/4 has a serious issue. And that's excluding the late. Which is pretty much a given
 
413x said:
Get a car

Public transport is utter ****

Especially trains. I don't know how people rely on them. My partner has to take a train 4 times a year. 1/4 has a serious issue. And that's excluding the late. Which is pretty much a given
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Since the main topic of the thread is Eurotunnel strikes, which is where you take a car onto a train and the way most Brits get to France, I'm not sure "get a car" and "don't rely on trains" is that useful?
 
Participant said:
Have you somehow come to the conclusion that my main complaint in this thread is poor weather? Verbal reasoning tests must have been a massive struggle for you.
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To be fair you said Public transport and then moaned about Christmas Travel chaos, I was pointing out that the train chaos today was mainly weather related (certainly the bulk of the UK/London Euston issues).
Its only later on in the thread you mentioned Eurostar - if you had said that in your first post I wouldn't have assumed you were talking about UK trains.
 
GaryTheSnail said:
Only during strikes and festive periods. Public Transport in general is fine usually.
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Tell me you don't rely on public transport without telling me you don't really on public transport.

It's "fine usually" for the odd journey where leaving the house an hour early "just in case" is workable.

When you actually need to get to work reliably, and leaving the house at 5am every day "just in case" isn't ideal then it's far from "fine usually".

Driving is easier, quicker, less stressful & more convenient. It can be cheaper as well (almost certainly when multiple people are travelling). The only reason not to is if you want to have a drink.
 
Haggisman said:
Tell me you don't rely on public transport without telling me you don't really on public transport.

It's "fine usually" for the odd journey where leaving the house an hour early "just in case" is workable.

When you actually need to get to work reliably, and leaving the house at 5am every day "just in case" isn't ideal then it's far from "fine usually".

Driving is easier, quicker, less stressful & more convenient. It can be cheaper as well (almost certainly when multiple people are travelling). The only reason not to is if you want to have a drink.
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In around 25 years I can only count on 1 hand where the services have either not turned up or there’s been a slight delay.

The rest of the times it’s either been strikes or the service has been moved to something else due to anything other than a delay. Usually strikes or weather.

And so what if people take public transport no need to try to force everyone to drive. Some people choose not too no matter how convenient it might be. No need to have a dig at someone for taking public transport.
 
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GaryTheSnail said:
In around 25 years I can only count on 1 hand where the services have either not turned up or there’s been a slight delay.

The rest of the times it’s either been strikes or the service has been moved to something else due to anything other than a delay. Usually strikes or weather.

And so what if people take public transport no need to try to force everyone to drive. Some people choose not too no matter how convenient it might be. No need to have a dig at someone for taking public transport.
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I guess you've not used the train service often recently?
 
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