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Robotrains take over NY's Brooklyn-Manhattan line under careful watch of human conductor overlords {Engadget}
Feb 24th 2009 10:08PM @BKLYN1989
Well, let's take a look what happens:
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Adam Williamson @ Feb 24th 2009 12:50PM
Vancouver's Skytrain system has been entirely automated since launch (in 1986), with no derailments or collisions ever. The only incidents have been mechanical failures and, as is inevitable with rail systems, suicides.
They don't have any kind of attendants, there's no driver car (though when it's snowing or something they send a staff member onto each train, I think just to reassure people, there's nothing they could actually do there). There's a big window up the front of each carriage with a front-facing seat. You get quite a lot of kids there, 'driving the train'. It's cute.
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Shocker!!!??? What? They've been running trains for over 20 years w/o any union people on the trains? I'm going to assume that people here have thought about it, and that the Skytrain has survived power outages and lost people on trains and guess what? The world didn't end.
All you're doing is scaring people for now reason. What the hell is a train crew going to do when there's no power? Start running on a hampster wheel and generate power?
Get over it. Unions made sense back when work was dangerous, but you certainly don't need to pay anyone more than a minimum wage to look at some lights on the controls.
Could you live on online TV / Netflix alone? One gal found out. {Engadget HD}
Dec 28th 2008 8:09PM I'm down to TiVo + Netflix for about $20 a month. Internet is about $35 a month for the crappy ATT Uverse 6Mbit/1Mbit service.
Palm Treo 800w review {Engadget Mobile}
Jul 24th 2008 3:24PM Does the phone finally have a regular head-phone jack so I can use it at the gym with normal headphones?
Charter adding three new HD channels to St. Louis, Missouri lineup {Engadget HD}
Jan 28th 2008 12:35AM Shouldn't CBS be carried due to "Must Carry" rules? With NTSC going away next year, how will CBS come in?
The 2007 Engadget Awards: Nominate the GPS Device of the Year {Engadget}
Dec 24th 2007 6:26PM TomTom 720
Lite-On finally releases 20x Super AllWrite LH-20A1P DVD burner {Engadget}
Nov 13th 2006 8:11PM Now if it were only SATA.
Engadget done right for your cellphone! {Engadget}
Sep 26th 2006 12:52PM This is clearly not geared with EVDO and HSDPA devices. My Treo 700p could chomp down the old version with ease, and graphics can always be turned off in the browser (but that's useful now when in an non-EVDO area).
I actually thought engadget was broken this morning when browsing through my phone. Anyway, my suggestion is to make an EVDO/HSDPA engadget that keeps the colors and photos, but loses the gazillion links on the right.
Verbatim to launch mini DVD-R dual-layer media {Engadget}
Aug 4th 2006 2:13AM 54 minutes is already too long for a family re-union.
Sony expands Bravia line with S2000 LCD series {Engadget}
Feb 7th 2006 11:58AM No 1080p??? blech...
Sprint goes down across the West Coast due to fiber-optics cut {Engadget}
Jan 9th 2006 10:08PM According to CNET, the first line was down because of a washout: "much of the traffic running on the Phoenix/Palm Springs link already had been rerouted from a link outside Reno, Nev. Heavy rains in the area had caused what technicians refer to as a "washout." To repair the fiber, the company had to cut it and shift traffic from Reno to the Phoenix link while they repaired the fiber."
I don't think it's fair to say that Sprint is a shitty carrier based on such a story. I bet any carrier could suffer same level of outage with two strategically placed fiber cuts such as these ones.
