Tea Bird
Matt Carter’s Blog
beneficial technology
Preventing train crashes
From The Economist:
A little automation could save lives
TIME and again, evidence shows computer-controlled vehicles have fewer accidents than those driven by people. Still, we have a pathological reluctance to surrender control. We seem to find all-too-frequent deaths caused by human carelessness somehow preferable to the obscure possibility of death by bloodless automaton.
The rail crash [...]
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