"Tim Watts" wrote in message
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On 08/03/16 12:31, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Tim Watts wrote:
Every time driverless trains or tubes are brought up, the vast majority
of
those who use them are against.


The driverless DLR works well, but there are 2 points:

1) It's not really driverless as there's a conductor who can drive on
board. They just pay him less and he does other jobs most of the time.

Yes. But those who go on and on about driverless trains want to eliminate
that job entirely - not just call it something else, or move the driver
from the cab to elsewhere.

Then they are misguided fools - you will never eliminate a staff presence
from trains with very rare exceptions (Gatwick terminal monorail - that's
short and there are a lot of staff and emergency responders on site all
the time).

Pity about
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...tion_4_Systems