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Expo '86 in Vancouver is when they launched the Skytrain, a completely automated, driverless system which continues to be automated and driverless today. Grant

• rsynnott 2y ago
  ... Huh. I had it in my head that this was a tiny slow system, I think because I'd somehow conflated it with Seattle's smol monorail (which I think was also designed to be automated, though that ultimately did not happen). It's... a lot bigger than I thought, fairly impressive for 1980s automation. Apparently some London tube lines used ATO since the 60s, though it was kind of the equivalent of ADAS Level 3; the driver had to be _there_, and occasionally do stuff (in particular they're responsible for opening the doors, presumably so that they don't drift off entirely).