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

There is a wide array of redundant systems in our world. Generally, redundancy is a reliable way to increase safety by adding more checks on a system at critical moments.

For trains, it’s a lot cheaper to pay someone to monitor the trains’ performance than it would be to pay lawsuits from crashing trains.