Driverless trains have been around for some 50 years now, the fact that they haven't completely saturated the train industry should tell you something about the potential of driverless cars https://twitter.com/BitingGadfly/status/936284206547824640 …
Doesn't explain why driverless trains haven't caught on in countries with weak unions like Japan tho
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In Japan boys grow up wanting to be train drivers, not racing drivers. + it is a job for life culture. Working for JR is a graduate career - start on the platform, progress to local trains and eventually get your 新幹線 wings. Still prob paid less than London Underground driver.
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They HAVE driverless trains in Japan though. They just haven't replaced trains with drivers, which is my whole point.
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I am not saying you are wrong, just that there are many diff reasons why things do or don’t catch on. The driverless trains in Japan are generally not JR - an expectation of service perhaps. Not the same with car. サラリーマン+boozelikey+0tolerance for drink driving=driverless??
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