Re: Driverless trains in USA

["Geoff Lillico" <glillic@msn.com.au>]

Whilst I did not see the programme on the History Channel [I will try for a
repeat], you can bet that like other HC programmes, they said very little if
anything about automatic trains other than the USA BART system. One day US
produced programmes might admit that the world does not end at the Atlantic
and Pacific Oceans!

There are many examples of "driverless" trains in the world, Singapore for
one.

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Geoff Lillico

"Chris Downs" <cvdowns@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
6P8x6.37$MM.2523@ozemail.com.au">news:6P8x6.37$MM.2523@ozemail.com.au...
> Sounds just like BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) - see http://www.bart.gov/
for
> current details and history.
>
> BART trains have been driverless from day one but I thought they had
someone
> up front (if not from day one then very soon after) for some functions
such as
> door opening (?), closing and to ok departure.
>
> Unfortunately BART suffered from being overly ambitious technologically.
> Until fairly recently the automatic train control couldn't achieve
headways as
> close as 3 minutes which was a significant constraint on the trans-bay
tube
> traffic.
>
> Chris
>
> Billy The Kid <Leave@anoteonmyTimesheet.com> wrote in message
> 3AC50603.CB5F5CD2@anoteonmyTimesheet.com">news:3AC50603.CB5F5CD2@anoteonmyTimesheet.com...
> > I saw a documentry on The History channel and it had a segment on the
> > San Francisco system. Right from the start in 1972 they had no drivers
> > or guards and all the trains are controlled from a central control room.
> > They have since added a guy up front for decoration. Does this mean in
> > years to come that the only guys on Sydney trains will be the Chubb guys
> > who hide up the back of the train.
> >
>
>