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Hyderabad Metro with CBTC tech can also be ‘driverless’ Updated: Updated: With software tweaks and infrastructure upgradation, we can also run driverless trains says HMR MD Share Article AAA The role of a metro train pilot inside the cabin is limited to opening or closing of doors or braking in case of any emergency.   | Photo Credit: ; - G_RAMAKRISHNA With software tweaks and infrastructure upgradation, we can also run driverless trains says HMR MD Delhi Metro may have become the first in the country to launch driverless technology for its new 38.2 km of Magenta Line on Monday. Fact, ...

December 18, 2020 NJT PTC Arrives JIT Written by William C. Vantuono, Editor-in-Chief New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy announces that NJ Transit has completed all the requirements for the installation, testing, and training of Positive Train Control at the Meadows Maintenance Complex in Kearny, N.J., Dec. 18, 2020. In New Jersey Transit’s epic struggle with implementing Positive Train Control by the Dec. 31, 2020 federal deadline, the agency came in under the wire(s), literally. On Dec. 17, less than two weeks before the New Year’s Eve “drop...

Government this time says amtrak service may not be rea in-stated until automatic train control is put this place. so guess what they did? they put it in over the weekend. so not only is it inexpensive, it is easy to install. and every time they do it after there is blood on the tracks. every time. it would be nice if they actually maybe looked at all the different curves where train speed would affect a derailment and put automatic train control in before people die. that would prevent people dying. >> and here is the thing. a tragedy like this happens. and you needily have people coming out ...

Myself. everybody was talking about, hey, we have this new advanced system coming on by the end of the year. >> right. that's a little bit more complicated. i think a little bit more expensive. >> but what is available now? >> automatic train control. >> and what does that do? >> that's been around for decades and dwek deckecades. >> you said the 1930s. >> the train is stopped if it's going too fast and there is no response. and bottom line is if you look at the history of like three major derailments, one in boston in 1990 where 70 plus people were injured and then metro north in 2013, four d...

This automatic control. service was restored between washington and new york city this morning. that automatic train control installed before -- i mean this was like a week. if it can be installed that quickly, then why wouldn't it already have been installed on this dangerous curve, j.p.? >> well the investigators talked about the curve being 100-something miles an hour and the other not so much. but we got a serious situation in the press, we got people talking about it all over the united states so of course bam, fixed, we're not going to talk about it anymore. but what we should be talking...