[CamperBob2]

It has everything to do with unions, specifically public-sector unions that shouldn't be allowed to exist anyway.

You can't expect the development and deployment of efficient automation in an environment where it's impossible to fire the existing human operators. Or where firing them would be just as expensive as keeping them around doing nothing useful.

[electricEmu]

> It has everything to do with unions, specifically public-sector unions that shouldn't be allowed to exist anyway.

OP complained about a driver slowing down and speeding up. TFA explained it. There's no magic.

Your viewpoint is staunch, one-sided, and brought no new information. That point of view sounds questionable.

[gowld]

Why don't public sector employees deserve rights?

[rayiner]

First, public sector employees don’t deserve special rights everyone else doesn’t have. Second, public sector unions present unique problems privat sector unions do not. If a private sector union pushes too hard, the company goes out of business and everyone is out of work. If a public sector union pushes too hard, nothing happens—it can hold critical government services (often monopoly services) hostage until it gets whatever terms it wants.

If MTA were a private company, it would have gone bankrupt long ago. But we accept that public services should sometimes be subsidized at the public expense. That subsidy should go toward making the service cheaper and more available to the public. But public sector unions capture some of that subsidy to get higher pay and benefits for public sector workers than those workers would get in a private company.

[CamperBob2]

Because those "rights" come from extorting the taxpayer, who has little or no say in the matter.