Would free trains not need conductors? At least here in Belgium, conductors also check whether it's safe for the train to depart. Metros don't have this, but th

Would free trains not need conductors? At least here in Belgium, conductors also check whether it's safe for the train to depart. Metros don't have this, but they have cameras throughout the vehicle and on each platform of each station. > governments like to keep track off movements. This doesn't make sense, train subscriptions don't make this possible. I have a train subscription but am only checked 1 times out of 10. The other 9 times no one knows where and when I got on or off the train. (Except if they examine the cameras in the stations.) A single ticket also only has a date, no time. And until a few years ago, conductors still 'cut' those, with an 'analog' tool; it's only recently they started scanning them.