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Work on The Liberties' new park will begin in the coming weeks

The park, which has been approved by Dublin City Council, is expected to be completed by this summer.

Cork Street Park 2 Dublin City Council Dublin City Council

THE LIBERTIES, DUBLIN is getting a public park.

After the idea was first suggested in 2013, activist group Cork Street Park were notified this week that a team to build the park had been chosen and would arrive at the site to officially begin work on a park for the area in the coming weeks.

The project is the first major project to be developed as part of the Liberties Greening Strategy, and also the first purpose-built public park for the Liberties community.

The plans include a pathway, benches, a playground, a terrace, skateboarding facilities, and spaces to add things in at a later stage.

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Skate D8

The interest in Cork Street Park was sparked by skateboarding group Skate D8, who had campaigned to turn the derelict park into a place they could use.

It’s often difficult for skateboarders to find somewhere to practice: they can be moved on from areas that aren’t specially designated for skateboarders, while public benches and walls can sometimes be fitted with metal balls and strips to stop people from skating on them.

In October 2013, the city manager stopped the park from being levelled and began a process of consultation about how the space could be used.

In workshop groups with the local community, green space, community space, and a playground made up more than half of most participants’ priorities for the park.

These were added to skatepark facilities to create a park for community events and other activities.

Cork Street Park 3 Dublin City Council

At the centre of the park will be a large lawn for games and activities and smaller raised lawn for sitting and reclining. On the edges of this central area will be a terrace onto Cork Street, an enclosed play area, a picnic space, and a small exercise space.

There will also be a playground for children aged under 10 years old. The large play unit will have a series of levels with raised platforms accessible by ropes and steps and a lower level accessible to children with physical disabilities.

The terrace will provide a “hang-out space” for teenagers and a place for skateboarders to display their skills. While the Park design does not incorporate a café kiosk, the terrace is designed to accommodate one in the future.

The design of the pergola (a square timber structure with a flat roof and no walls) can also incorporate games such as a chess board on the ground and table tennis, if required.

Although there won’t be a specifically allocated area within the park for skating, the edges between the path and grass will be designed as a raised sculptural feature to accommodate activities such as skating, BMX, parkour, play and seating.

Cork Street Park 5 A closer look at what is planned for the park. Dublin City Council Dublin City Council

A nod to…

The pergola inclusion is inspired by the timber frames of the Tenters Field which was located nearby. The Tenters Field was where local textiles makers brought cloth to be stretched and dried.

The playground unit will incorporate mock building facades onto Chamber St to resemble the Dutch Billy gable fronted houses that once lined the street.

The play equipment is designed to make reference to the historical heritage of the area as being central to Dublin’s cloth working and leather tanning industry. This provides the opportunity to communicate this aspect of the local heritage to the children using the play area.

In a statement to TheJournal.ie, Dublin City Council said that the park was “a step forward in addressing the deficit of quality green space and outdoor recreation opportunities in this part of the city”.

It is one of a series of greening projects that the city council plans to undertake over the next few years to support the Liberties in being a great place to live and work.

The park is expected to be completed by this summer.

Read: ‘The priests would have roast beef for dinner, and a fella would collect the drippings and sell it in his shop’ – The songs and stories of Dublin’s Liberties

From 2013: Dublin council supports proposal to turn derelict site into park

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    Jun 29th 2016, 4:07 PM

    Monorail

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    Jun 29th 2016, 4:12 PM

    auto mated councillors be way to go

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    Jun 29th 2016, 4:14 PM

    Is there a chance the track could bend?

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    Jun 29th 2016, 4:16 PM

    No on your life my Hindu friend.

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    Jun 29th 2016, 4:24 PM

    What about us brain-dead slobs?

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    Jun 29th 2016, 4:24 PM

    I hear those things are awfully loud…

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    Jun 29th 2016, 4:25 PM

    D’oh!

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    Jun 29th 2016, 4:37 PM

    Lol shane

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    Jun 29th 2016, 4:53 PM

    But dublin’s still all cracked and broken?

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    Jun 29th 2016, 4:55 PM

    You’ll be given cushy jobs!

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    Jun 29th 2016, 5:21 PM

    Sorry Colin, the mob has spoken.

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    Jun 29th 2016, 6:49 PM

    @mark, I would say you’ll be given cushy jobs but seems that’s already the case with tram drivers…

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    Jun 29th 2016, 10:55 PM

    The ring fell off my pudding can :(

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    Jun 29th 2016, 11:49 PM

    Mono… D’oh!

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    Jun 30th 2016, 12:23 AM

    Use my pen knife my good man! … We can do this

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    Jun 30th 2016, 7:45 AM

    Well, sir, there’s nothing on earth like a genuine bona fide, electrified, six-car Monorail

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    Jun 30th 2016, 7:50 AM

    They’ll all start striking again if it goes through then they will be forced to keep the drivers before any plans get off the ground.

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    Jun 29th 2016, 4:03 PM

    ha ha ha ha ha ha

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    Jun 29th 2016, 5:04 PM

    Waffler will be along soon to tell us how, capitalist pigs will exploit the robot workers and that AAA stands shoulder to shoulder with cyborg 1′s right to toilet breaks

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    Jun 29th 2016, 4:13 PM

    Pffft, you’ll never get a computer program to push the apple forward slowly.

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    Jun 29th 2016, 4:10 PM

    Brilliant idea.
    Let the drivers found out what working really is.

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    Jun 29th 2016, 4:10 PM

    DLR in London is also automated.

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    Jun 29th 2016, 5:17 PM

    DLR is not an on street system. On street systems are very difficult to fully automate and probably very expensive.

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    Jun 29th 2016, 6:27 PM

    The article does not mention on-street….

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    Jun 29th 2016, 6:32 PM

    But the LUAS is an on street system.

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    Jun 29th 2016, 7:28 PM

    Tesla , Google , Apple , ford and all the major car companies have the technology in cars. The Luas is in tracks and doesn’t need steering wheels, the lights work in unison with it. And a vast majority is off the road. The technology exists and the requirements for the Luas are even simpler

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    Jun 29th 2016, 8:00 PM

    Rory every DLR has an emergency operator sitting at the front.

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    Jun 29th 2016, 8:56 PM

    @Proinsias! Seen as driverless cars and trucks have been developed and road tested by Google and Samsung i doubt its ‘very’ difficult to automate the trams as the technoligy already exists. Seen as the luas drivers can cost upwards of 50k a year i would imagine dropping the drivers wpuld offset the cost nicely….

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    Jul 13th 2016, 1:08 PM

    Nope.

    I was on the DLR last week – sitting in the front seat – pretending to drive :) There was no emergency operator.

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    Jun 29th 2016, 4:31 PM

    Just back from the euros and the tram/monorail is automatic. At a guess it’s at least 15 years old but amazingly effective. Any current and all future small intercity lines should be set up on this model. Drivers simply aren’t needed

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    Jun 29th 2016, 9:19 PM

    Is it on street? Does it have to contend with the stupidity of Dublin drivers and pedestrians?

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    Jun 29th 2016, 4:09 PM

    I’m living forward to when everything eventually become automated and the machines do eventually take over.

    I’m still convinced that they’ll do a better job.

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    Jun 29th 2016, 4:35 PM

    Since most of us operate like robots these days the transition should be bloodless.

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    Jun 29th 2016, 4:47 PM

    Will Philips. Your right. Just ask your other half. She agrees

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    Jun 29th 2016, 4:49 PM

    @ Will Philips. I fully agree. Along with your half. She’ll tell you machines are better..

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    Jun 29th 2016, 5:25 PM

    Cheeky.

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    Jun 29th 2016, 4:11 PM

    A lot of the luas drivers are also taxi drivers . I wonder will management give them the letter they need for the NTA to operate as a taxi after the strike. I see a lot of bus drivers are also taxi drivers. The baseball cap doesn’t completely hide your faces lads.

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    Jun 29th 2016, 9:20 PM

    You’re a very observant man to be able to recognise so many drivers double jobbing. Are they taking your custom?

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    Jun 29th 2016, 11:10 PM

    I am indeed. Are you a double jobber?

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    Jun 30th 2016, 2:54 AM

    These days, who isn’t?!

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    Jun 29th 2016, 4:05 PM

    I know it’s unpopular opinion, but that sucks for the drivers.

    What does it cost these days to give a child a nice upbringing, ensure they have affordable healthcare, make sure they go to a good college, and make sure you aren’t working unsociable hours so you get to see them?

    They went out and took a stand to receive a piece of the profit they helped to create, and now they are to be replaced by Robots.

    When we all have technology that is able to do our jobs, will they give us more time off? More time to spend with loved ones?

    Will they f**k

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    Jun 29th 2016, 4:21 PM

    Yes but it isn’t because they went on strike that this is happening, rather the direction the world is moving in. They can retrain in something else if they don’t want this argument in 20 years time.

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    Jun 29th 2016, 4:30 PM

    Yea but somebody’s got to build the robot that builds the robot that does the work, simple really.

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    Jun 29th 2016, 4:33 PM

    Like when Charlie’s dad was replace by a robotic arm in the toothpaste factory but ended getting a job to fix the very same machine.

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    Jun 29th 2016, 5:17 PM

    Tipp

    Innovation is constantly replacing mundane ‘simple’ jobs performed by humans. There is no area that has not been impacted. The type of jobs people do just changes.

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    Jun 29th 2016, 6:20 PM

    The “Luas” train in Dubai runs driverless and has done for the past 8 or nine years with no issues you get your ticket and hold it against the ticket machine and your in. Simple . Hasn’t been one ounce of trouble with it and no drivers strikes so it can be done , just not in Ireland .

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    Jun 29th 2016, 6:37 PM

    The Dubai Tram is not driverless! Read the link:

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubai_Tram

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    Jun 29th 2016, 6:48 PM

    The metro is driverless.

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    Jun 29th 2016, 6:51 PM

    The metro does not operate on the streets. It is a strictly controlled environment where driverless operation is far simpler to implement.

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    Jun 29th 2016, 6:54 PM

    Problem is ALL jobs can be automated. Apparently the technology exists to turn IPads into mobile MRI scanners! When big intellectuals like Stephen Hawking are expressing concern about AI and the growth of machines…it’s time to look up and think about where the world is going.

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    Jun 29th 2016, 6:56 PM

    Yes I know but we’re heading down the road of driverless cars, that technology will be available for all transport. I’m pretty sure it’s a given.

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    Jun 29th 2016, 6:58 PM

    Nick…its not just “mundane jobs” that are going. Survey after survey highlights “the professions” as being at the greatest risk from automation. Finance is one of the areas at freatest risk. Look at how few traders now work on wall street compareed to 20 yrs ago.

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    Jun 29th 2016, 7:00 PM

    I think driverless cars are further in the future than you think. My guess is that even 10 years time is an optimistic timescale.

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    Jun 29th 2016, 7:11 PM

    I’ll tell ya what it costs – working your way up through school over 14 yrs and achieving a decent leaving cert. Taking another 4 yrs to earn a degree or apprenticeship then possibly another 2 yrs to earn a masters or further training at the very least. It’s about working and constantly bettering yourself and your skills and abilities to make yourself more employable and higher skilled so you can achieve higher pay better conditions and a better lifestyle based on your merits and achievements. Not a 7 week course after which you expect to earn as much as people who save lives and keep the peace, people with vast amounts more training with much less pay, more risks and equally unsociable hours. Many who also don’t hold the population and economy of a city to ransom to get there way.

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    Jun 29th 2016, 7:14 PM

    Well in my first comment I did give a random figure of 20 years. ;)

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    Jun 29th 2016, 8:29 PM

    Don’t believe what the press tell you it’s lot more to it then 7months training. . Don’t blame them because your salary is low why don’t you and your fellow workers protest for better money.

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    Jun 29th 2016, 9:20 PM

    They say we won’t need women in the future either….just think no more nagging.

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    Jun 29th 2016, 9:26 PM

    Can they automate the executives first? If there are no drivers to drive, there’s no need for overpaid executives to pretend to make important decisions.

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    Jun 29th 2016, 5:03 PM

    Pah they’d end up still sitting in the drivers seat as some kind of Automation Supervisor, no doubt with a hefty pay rise thrown in for the inconvenience of no longer having to push anything at all

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    Jun 29th 2016, 5:10 PM

    They should automate the Dart.

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    Jun 29th 2016, 7:29 PM

    Around these parts we call it the DOIRT.

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    Jun 29th 2016, 4:38 PM

    Skytrain in Vancouver is all automated since the 1980s lol

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    Jun 29th 2016, 5:49 PM

    Does the name give a clue that it doesn’t run on the road like the Luas?

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    Jun 29th 2016, 5:59 PM

    I’m pretty sure they could program the teams to stop in the event something is on the track..they are called sensors…

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    Jun 29th 2016, 6:48 PM

    Not that simple the balance between safe operation and speed is difficult to achieve.

    Err on the safety will make operation very slow with the tram coming to a stop for something like a pigeon on the line. Err on the other side and the LUAS runs over a little old lady.

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    Jun 29th 2016, 7:16 PM

    Automated rail systems only have one possible route and limited areas of tram /vehicle/ pedestrian interaction. It runs in a rail bed that can fitted out with sensors and triggers and all sorts of monitoring gear to relay telemetry to aid decision making. It doesn’t need to consider the myriad of other factors that a car would and autonomous cars are around the corner. While it would mean extensive retrofitting of the system most likely it would be a one off cost offset against the redundancy packages and pay and benefits of drivers over time. Entirely achievable and only a matter of time before the cost outlay matches the wage bill and someone makes the decision.

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    Jun 29th 2016, 4:14 PM

    DLR is a very different animal to a tram system sharing streets with some of the most dumbass drivers and pedestrians on earth!

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    Jun 29th 2016, 4:44 PM

    And so it begins ,skynet

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    Jun 29th 2016, 6:14 PM

    Skynet begins with the automation of a light rail system in Dublin?.. Well that’s a bit of a let down… was expecting something a little more.. well.. whizz bangier…

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    Jun 29th 2016, 6:45 PM

    Gotta start somewhere paddy :):)

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    Jun 29th 2016, 7:18 PM

    Not with a whizz bang but with a “mind the gap”…… Possibly an “I told you to mind the f-ing gap” as someone is dragged down a tramline trapped in a sliding door!

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    Jun 29th 2016, 6:50 PM

    I for one welcome our new robot overlords

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    Jun 29th 2016, 5:15 PM

    its just common sense, lets hope it happens as soon as possible :)

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    Jun 29th 2016, 9:23 PM

    Hopefully just after your job is automated.

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    Jun 29th 2016, 6:59 PM

    Rumour has it drivers will refuse to train the robots

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    Jun 29th 2016, 6:58 PM

    We need those Johnny Cabs from Total Recall. Problem solved.

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    Jun 29th 2016, 4:44 PM

    Lets hope The redundant driver doesn’t go after your job.

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    Jun 29th 2016, 5:43 PM

    Some chance benny. Qualifications, eh i push an apple and you may of heard about me and me driver mates tryin to shaft the company. Thank you, we will be in touch mr luasdriver.

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    Jun 29th 2016, 5:43 PM

    Benny

    There’s not too many jobs pushing apples to go after. They may have to retrain

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    Jun 29th 2016, 7:34 PM

    Benny maybe the drivers should look at doing automation courses, they may be surprised what doors actual qualifications open

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    Jun 29th 2016, 5:53 PM

    Wouldn’t matter if they’re fully automated, they’re on street light rail so they would require someone to man the drivers seat in case of emergencies ie if a car broke a red light or people walked out in front of it. The DLR in London is fully automated because it doesn’t share the road. The central line is too and it still uses drivers

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    Jun 29th 2016, 5:58 PM

    Sensors come into play, like on driverless cars. And the Central Line has very dated rolling stock and infrastructure.

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    Jun 29th 2016, 7:32 PM

    Darragh, they’d have plenty of sensors with built in redundancy. There won’t be a problem you should look up how self driving cars work.
    The sensors are better than a drivers eyes as they don’t need light and react better

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    Jun 29th 2016, 5:16 PM

    Driverless trains are, even on the London underground. Driverless cars will everywhere soon, too. Airplanes really fly themselves also, with the crew there to step in for emergencies. Nobody flys the lethal bombers either, now known as drones.

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    Jun 29th 2016, 5:24 PM

    Lausanne and Trikala?

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    Jun 29th 2016, 5:31 PM

    Ger

    Dones are not automated. They are flown by pilots. The only difference is the pilots do not need to be on the aircraft, they are sitting in a remote cockpit but still flying them.

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    Jun 29th 2016, 5:41 PM

    Some drones are completely autonomous. With decisions to bomb made by the software.

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    Jun 29th 2016, 5:57 PM

    Ger

    I don’t believe that for a second. Have you a reference?

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    Jun 29th 2016, 6:04 PM

    It’s true – drones are often programmed to complete missions. Eye in the Sky, a new movie (Helen Mirren) about autonomous drones showed how it’s done – but there’s a lot about this new technology on google.

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    Jun 29th 2016, 6:18 PM

    Amazing technology. When the drone’s scan shows up napalm, explosives or large heroin quantities for example – it’s programmed to destroy, without authorisation or communication.

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    Jun 29th 2016, 6:39 PM

    Ger

    Can you provide and example?

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    Jun 29th 2016, 6:45 PM

    Nick – the internet is full of them. Google is your friend, that is – if you don’t live on Skeillig or somewhere. Where have you been – not Area 51?

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    Jun 29th 2016, 6:52 PM

    Nick, you seem surprised! There are also submarine drones, that only surface every few years – but can be deployed in any ocean, at any depth. With nuclear weaponry: These are not autonomous.

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    Jun 29th 2016, 7:25 PM

    Wow Ger that was a great book you were reading, Asimov was it? Yes drones can fly on autopilot to a specific area but the kill chain is controlled by humans. Humans pull the trigger. Humans pick the targets. Yes I’ve seen that movie and do you honestly believe everything you see in movies? Do you think that yer man’s phone controlled flying bug camera actually exists? And if it does why would they need a dude to be within sight of the place to control it? Also submarines, yes can potentially stay submerged for years but the crew would be long dead from starvation before that so what would be the point? Also how can they be drones if they are not autonomous? Surely that’s just a submarine then?

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    Jun 29th 2016, 7:54 PM

    Drone submarines have no crew! Those drones seeking drugs, explosives and specific targets – are activated internally.

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    Jun 29th 2016, 8:24 PM

    Ger

    If the Internet is full of them could you provide one single example as I can’t find any

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    Jun 29th 2016, 9:27 PM

    It still takes a person to programme a drone. Self programming drones would be a dangerous thing.

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    Jun 29th 2016, 10:50 PM

    Correct Daisy – humans program.

    But Ger is correct.

    Drones – in the air and under the sea – don’t need (but usually have) human control.

    And if Nick can’t see evidence of this on the web, she should never apply for a drone pilot job!

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    Jun 29th 2016, 8:51 PM

    Good enough for the apple pushers!

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    Jun 29th 2016, 5:52 PM

    This joker should stay in medicine. No workers means no taxes so Paddy were do you think your wages from St James Hospital comes from. I sometimes despair at the mentality of people in this country.

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    Jun 29th 2016, 7:36 PM

    Thomas there will be plenty of highly skilled automation engineers. Your argument is flawed.

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    Jun 29th 2016, 9:29 PM

    And what if the automation engineers go on strike?

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    Jun 30th 2016, 5:30 PM

    My directorship on the board of St James’ is unpaid. And before you ask, I claim no expenses for it.

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    Jun 29th 2016, 4:56 PM

    As you can drive on some areas of the luas track what would happen if a vehicle stalled and couldn’t move , or someone lost there footing and fell on to the track . how would the tram be stopped? It is not normal working conditions that would cause problems if trams were automated but abnormal ones

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    Jun 29th 2016, 5:20 PM

    Linda

    Do you honestly think that those scenarios have not or would not be considered. I would hazard a guess that the use of sensors and cameras with people and machines remotely managing the system may be used.

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    Jun 29th 2016, 8:04 PM

    The tram would be stopped by applying the brake

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    Jun 29th 2016, 5:59 PM

    Only a FG dirtbag would come up with this and only because there are enough dirtbags to support him

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    Jun 29th 2016, 9:03 PM

    SF have the majority in Dublin city and passed the motion

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    Jun 29th 2016, 5:21 PM

    I don’t think fully driverless on street tram operation has been implemented anywhere as it is technically complex and I suspect very costly.

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    Jun 29th 2016, 5:44 PM

    In the long run it would be cheeper and easier than using human drivers.

    -Never gets tired.
    -Never calls in sick.
    -Never needs a holiday.
    -Never goes on strike and demand more pay.
    -Plus it can always be upgraded with newer and better software.

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    Jun 29th 2016, 5:49 PM

    a sad attempt at humour, or sarcasm…?

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    Jun 29th 2016, 6:38 PM

    @will and no one to ride on them either as no one will be working, cop on and get a brain

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    Jun 29th 2016, 9:05 PM

    Luddites
    -a member of any of the bands of English workers who destroyed machinery, especially in cotton and woollen mills, which they believed was threatening their jobs (1811–16).

    Technology makes old jobs obsolete but at the same times creates far more new jobs in different sectors that never existed beforehand.

    The industrial revolution and age of modern science of the 20th century created far more employment than it destroyed.

    Read a history book dipsh*t.

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    Jun 29th 2016, 9:30 PM

    Will, when was your job automated?

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    Jun 30th 2016, 12:11 AM

    Automation of Luas is inevitable. Of course there’ll be job losses. It’s tough but that’s the reality.

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    Jun 29th 2016, 11:02 PM

    Can some of the greedy tram drivers comment to give their views on how their greed has now cost the country jobs, also I don’t think I heard any comment from then to justify there demands that there paid more than new nurses, engineers, managers etc etc.

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    Jun 29th 2016, 9:54 PM

    Ladies and Gentlemen, this is your automatic driver, a sophisticated computer. I tell this tram when to accelerate, when to slow down, when to stop and when to start. With a precision of which no human operator is capable. We are now going a little too fast and there is a curve ahead, so I shall instruct the tram to slow down, down, down, down, down, down, down …

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    Jun 29th 2016, 8:22 PM

    The counciller is only seeking popular opinion he knows it to expensive to get that kind of technology the strike is over why would he want to rob people of their jobs .i would suggest that the councilors be made redundant they haven’t any power the city manager as the final say on any decisions.They are only parasites drawning ahefty salary and expenses and that’s probably only a sideline to them

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    Jun 29th 2016, 9:10 PM

    That’s the solution ……. Automate the Council ……. just need a brown envelope slot and away they go!

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    Jun 29th 2016, 6:40 PM

    Well said Thomas

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    Jun 30th 2016, 12:12 PM

    Great. So now we will have to pay the apple pushers a grand a week fir staying at home???

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