Re: Driverless Trams and Crowds on the Track
  Matthew Geier

On Sat, 18 May 2019 at 11:23, 'Richard Youl' via TramsDownUnder < tramsdownunder@...> wrote:

>

> Programming trams to stop before hitting anyone should be simple enough as

> this technology is already applied to other road vehicles. I just wonder

> how it would handle some scenarios which confronted me, daily on the Route

> 96 ‘Light Rail’ between St Kilda Beach and East Brunswick?

>

>

Google's Waymo (and probably others) have already discovered that the
vehicles need a certain amount of 'controlled aggression' or they don't get
to ever pull out. I just know of Google' work as it's better documented
than the others (a number of our ex-students work for Google who let them
come back and give talks, we never hear much from those Uber hires :-)

As for Uni students blocking trams - a there a long history there. Ask any
old-boy from Sydney Uni what happened on Friday/Saturday evenings after a
'few' at the Manning Bar.
I'm sure the same thing happened in Melbourne too.