Monday, July 1, 2013

Solution to the BART strike: self-driving BART trains

The BART Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1555 is threatening to strike.

Bay Area residents pay taxes so that an enormous capital investment can be made into a rapid transit system. Then, we hire operators, who use the threat of crippling that system and creating chaos to blackmail politicians into giving them higher pay.

I say: Automate the whole thing. We got rid of the toll takers. Let's get rid of the transit operators. Google has created self-driving cars. Self-driving BART trains should probably be a lot easier.

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