I really don’t see the need to have a driver in a vehicle on rails.
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Safety precaution. And convenience.
– You want someone in front who is able to swiftly make decisions on the possibility that the track control does something wrong. It seldom does, and if it does it’s not certain that it’s the train driver who is actually able to do something about it, that spots it in time.
– when the track control system goes down (because a server malfunctions, because a radio tower goes down, because a power feed for a network switch dies, because the radio equipment in the train engine dies. and so on) it’s going to create HORRIBLE delays for that specific train if you first need to get a driver to the train, before being able to instruct the train to manually override the (lack of or wrongful) instructions from the track control.
The driver is actually pretty cheap per hour, compared to what the train operator pays for track access per hour.
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