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The lack of train automation has more to do with public sector unions protecting jobs via crony politics than human comfort.

• dx034 10y ago
  I don't know why you get downvoted. At least in London that's certainly the case. Automating metros is very easy but as drivers can virtually halt the whole city with a strike, no one dares to do it.
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  • drzaiusapelord 10y ago
    This site is mostly college-aged leftist millennials. I think any criticism of unions will just lead to knee-jerk downvotes, unfortunately. The history of job protection holding back progress certainly isn't a controversial subject, but I guess ideology rules the twitchy downvote finger on social media sites.
    • hx87 10y ago
      > This site is mostly college-aged leftist millennials. They're balanced (or perhaps more than balanced) out by the college-aged libertarian millennials, so that isn't a good explanation.
  • masklinn 10y ago
    > I don't know why you get downvoted. Because it's a kneejerk political assertion of a common bogeyman provided with no evidence whatsoever which fails to explain why there are GOA4 systems in production including in countries with a history of adversarial labor relations? TL;DR: because it's a worthless pandering comment