On Monday, June 12, 2017 at 2:01:22 PM UTC-4, The Times They Are a-Changin' wrote:
On Mon, 12 Jun 2017 10:45:19 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

On Monday, June 12, 2017 at 1:25:35 PM UTC-4, Richard Persing wrote:
On 6/9/2017 4:45 PM, Steve from Colorado wrote:
I was doing some fishing up near the townsite of Toland off the
Burlington Northern railroad near the Moffat Tunnel and noticed their
are no humans controlling the locomotives waiting on the siding while
some train coming the other direction gets the right of way. I guess
some Silicon VAlley startup has figured away to put all railroad
engineers out of work, losing their pensions and livelihood to robots. I
wonder if they're is going to be an uprising as good paying jobs get
eliminated by automation and Amazon.

No, there will be no uprising.

There are no robotic freight trains in the United States. There are a few light-rail passenger lines, especially monorails and subways that have no other traffic intersections, that are autonomous.

As for "losing pensions," not that either.

I think we're getting a look at the way attitudes are shaped among the people who became Trump voters. Facts have nothing to do with it; it's all attitude, conspiracy theories, and empty accusations.

Right. Trumpers see driverless cars parked every day. But when they
see a parked train, they can't think of anything to relate it to. And
what about all those planes parked at airports? Think of all the
pilots put out of work by THAT conspiracy.

Nobody controlling those parked planes, huh? g

Freight trains have at least two crew members (a conductor and an engineer); sometimes up to five or six. If they're sitting on a siding with the brakes on, they're probably off having coffee.

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Ed Huntress