I really don’t see the need to have a driver in a vehicle on rails.
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A number of light rail lines in the world are autonomous, for example the DLR in London.
The main issue that prevents the automation of heavy rail is the complexity of the railway system. The autonomous light rail systems mostly are simple two-way lines with no points or branch lines or interactions with non-autonomous vehicles.
You’d also need to install a significant amount of control equipment and remote sensing which would get ludicrously expensive for cross-country lines.
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