[jeffbee]

A self-driving streetcar, that only has 1 degree of freedom, might be a practical problem to solve and maybe if it existed we would not have had to go through the 90-day outage of VTA light rail service that the Bay Area just experienced, an experience which in all likelihood killed VTA light rail forever.

[mynameisvlad]

The VTA control building/center was badly damaged in the shooting that caused the outage you're talking about. Surely a fully automated light rail line would require everything in said building to likely be running at full capacity to work.

Also, it was a result of a mass shooting. Have some tact.

[wumpus]

VTA restarted service a couple of days ago.