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Re:Apple receives permit in California to test self-driving ... by mrbabbage on Friday April 14, 2017 @07:31PM (#14118260)
On the train point, humans have operated fully automatic rail systems for nearly fifty years (the London Underground Victoria Line opened in 1968; BART in San Francisco is similarly automated and open in 1972). The first unattended train to my knowledge, the Vancouver SkyTrain, didn't open til 1985, or 17 years later.

My interpretation: it took a while—17 years—for people to warm up to driverless trains on fixed routes with no at-grade intersections.

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Re:Apple receives permit in California to test self-driving ... by adolph on Friday April 14, 2017 @07:48PM (#14118376)
Also Dallas:

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

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Re:Apple receives permit in California to test self-driving ... by jacquesm on Friday April 14, 2017 @07:36PM (#14118294)
Also in Japan:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m12tb1p_NEM

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Re:Apple receives permit in California to test self-driving ... by linkregister on Friday April 14, 2017 @07:50PM (#14118389)
Who is the person who sits at the front of the BART train? That isn't the operator?
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Re:Apple receives permit in California to test self-driving ... by pvg on Friday April 14, 2017 @08:14PM (#14118501)
It is. What they spend most of their time operating are the doors, though.
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Re:Apple receives permit in California to test self-driving ... by gyc on Friday April 14, 2017 @08:53PM (#14118685)
Although it wasn't that long ago when BART workers went on strike, replacement workers (former BART operators) stepped in to operate the trains, and then promptly ran over and killed two workers performing track maintenance.
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Re:Apple receives permit in California to test self-driving ... by pvg on Friday April 14, 2017 @11:47PM (#14119268)
It also didn't really have anything to do with the train operators.

http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/BART-Responds-to-NTSB-R...

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