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Parable - 81 - HD
🕑 Added 2020-03-20 04:24:13 +0000 UTCWait for it...
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D'AWWWWWW
Anyway, pardon me while I go and implement a rule in which I avoid conversing with people online or checking news prior to reaching at least a point in comic production in which I can effectively be on autopilot so as to not be derailed so thoroughly mentally that comics are forced to be completely late in the evening.
Autopilots can apply to trains, correct? They're not, like "auto-conductors" or something? Like, a car can have autopilot? Would that be "autodriver"? I guess people just say "self-driving", which seems silly. The car would have to be self-aware to have a "self", so that can't... be... Oh dear lord ARE SELF-DRIVING CARS SENTIENT?! WHAT HAVE WE DONE?! WHO WERE WE TO GIVE CARS LIFE?!
Yeah, you see how easily my brain goes places? It meanders like... A thing... That... Meanders. A tourist in a museum of art? That's not catchy, though. A comparison should be catchy.
Whatever. It's a date. D'aw.
Oh, and there will be a Saturday comic still. That's still a thing.
D'aw.
Comments
ZekeStaright
SMOOOOOCH !
jubs
Dawwww! Also FWIW, conductors don't drive trains, that's the job of a train driver. ("An engineer (American and Canadian), engine driver, loco pilot, motorman, train driver (British and Commonwealth English), is a person who drives a train." I think I prefer motorman, personally.)
Hans Peter Bak
Awwww! :D They are so CUTE!
Hans Peter Bak
In Denmark they are still controlled by loco-drivers. I know because I know one loco-driver. He must press a button with his foot all the time and if he doesn't the train stops. It's helps that Denmark is a small country. ;)
Dan Shive
They ever get honks?
Brooks Moses
A friend of mine has a bumper sticker that says "Honk if you're a self-driving car!"
Paul Lenoue
I'm betting she never kissed before. Lots of practice will be required.
Brooks Moses
Will they? Or will they just do "something non-specific" conveniently slightly off-panel? (Possibly they are already holding hands off-panel!)
Brooks Moses
I recently learned that steam locomotives are sufficiently difficult to automate that even making remote-controlled ones is difficult! The reason that the suitcase-sized model "live steam" locomotives generally are set up to have someone perched on the car behind them, rather than being remote controlled, is not just that riding behind a tiny steam locomotive is fun. It's also that, between making sure that the water level is right and the fire is right and the various other adjustments that one needs to make to keep it running, the remote control ones can only go for a few minutes before needing to be poked at by a human. By contrast, most diesel locomotives are capable of being remotely controlled. Large trains (at least in the U.S.) are usually pulled by several locomotives joined together, and only the front one of those has a driver. The others are just remotely controlled (by wires) from the front one.
The Sunroses
GOOD!! we love them, omg,
coredumperror
Diesel locomotives are largely autonomous in Europe, or so I hear. I remember there being a story of a Spanish train (I think?) that made the news because it's autonomous system fucked up.
R L
They're SO gonna Hold hands
Dalek2150
Trains, especially ones pulled by steam locomotives are less likely to be automated than most other transportation methods however. Probably the only other one less likely to be automated is ships, probably something to do with the steel on steel (and minimal amounts) contact, and lack of brakes like on a conventional vehicle respectively.
coredumperror
Hehehehe! Cuuuute. Also, Cars *can* have Autopilot. Look into Tesla's offering. It works almost exactly like autopilot on planes. And trains can have automated conductors, as well.
