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The [London Docklands Light Railway](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docklands_Light_Railway http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docklands_Light_Railway) is also driver-l
by writetoalok 15y ago
The [London Docklands Light Railway](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docklands_Light_Railway http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docklands_Light_Railway) is also driver-less. However travelling everyday on it, the journey is not smooth. Especially when it starts or stops, the acceleration and deceleration is very jerky. And also the train lurches forwards quite a few times.
Not what one would expect on any train especially an automated train.
- dodo53 15y agoCould this not be the same thing you sometimes get on the human-driven tubes - for some reason (bizarre safety?) apparently if people lean on the doors they brake suddenly (have heard drivers say that over PA, googled for some kinda explanation but couldn't see anything except speculation).
- metageek 15y agoYou'd think it'd be cheaper and more reliable to make the doors sturdier.
- kgermino 15y agoI don't know what it's like on the LDLR you mentioned, but I regularly ride the (very) human dependent 'L' in Chicago, and that's not a smooth ride either. So I'm not sure how much it has to do with the computer drivers.
- jsharpe 15y agoVancouver's SkyTrain ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SkyTrain_(Vancouver) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SkyTrain_(Vancouver) ) is driverless and very smooth. I have a feeling the unpleasantness of the ride of the LDLR has more to do with characteristics of the track or technology, rather than the driver's actions.