UK government again plugs strike-busting dream of driverless subway trains
Get the Full StoryIt s strike season on the London Underground, and that means one thing for the UK s interminable Tory governments: time to rev-up the driverless hype train. Conservative politicians have long called for a fully-autonomous metro. In 2012, then-London Mayor Boris Johnson said Britain s capital would have driverless trains within 10 years. A decade later, he claimed the switch would free people from being prisoners of the unions. The government reiterated the case during recent funding talks with Transport for London TfL , which operates the local underground network. Transport Secretary Grant Shapps made working towards driverless trains a condition of the bailout. Shapps This story continues at The Next WebShare: