Re: Driverless trains in USA

["Chris Downs" <cvdowns@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
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> 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.
>