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AGVs or automated guided viacals...may make trains possible without track in freight and light rail
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Maybe in like 20 years. <br /> <br />Just last night on the History Channel, there was a show about DARPA testing automated land vehicles. None of them did well and they had enormous problems when encountering obstacles they did not antcipate. The one vehicle rammed a fence post that turned out to be in concrete and damaged the vehicle a lot when it forced the post out. Then later it got hung up on a rock and spun its tires for much and for so long that eventually the vehicle caught fire. <br /> <br />One that drive on the roads pilot-less, like Carnegie-Mellon's design, though seems to be ok, but it requires someone to mind it and make sure its actually doing what its supposed to be doing.
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