Why trains aren’t driverless

Question

I really don’t see the need to have a driver in a vehicle on rails.

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Answer 1

Some are. The reason most aren’t is the same reason planes aren’t, the driver constitutes a backup safety system and handles things that are more likely to go wrong if you entirely automated it.

There are train systems that are entirely driverless, usually underground systems. There are other systems that employ the same technology and the trains drive themselves but a human is there in case something breaks.

I think I might have just said the same thing twice but whatever.