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When I was a kid, all elevators had an elevator operators. You entered, he closed an outer gate on the hole in the wall and then an inner gate. He then asked you the floor. He then pulled a cable that moved the car up/down, and stopped at your floor - often jockeying a little up/down to level the floor within ~~ an inch. Then came push button elevators with automatic levelling and inner/outer door operation. So you push the button, elevator comes/door opens and you enter and the operator ask you what floor - WTF?. Yes, the operators union in cahoots with elevator installers unions saw the writing on the wall. Buildings were shorter, but few wanted to trudge up/down 10-20 floors. Deliveries carried as most freight elevators worked the old way. These strikes for an un-needed job went on for a while and landlords often gave in and wages went to 5 times the prior wage as you were over a barrel and your pants were down, and in the overall rent of space = small potatoes. Eventually it became so egregious that new buildings who never had operators were able to get pickets limited for places that never had a union to 2 information pickets who could not block access at all. Bear in mind these were safety elevators, with dual safety brakes so the doom and gloom of elevators full of screaming people falling 20+ floors that were featured by the info pickets. The walking public saw it as BS and ignored them and in time they went away. We can easily have fully automatic subway trains. All you need are doors on the platform side to mate with doors on the car side and a controlled set of rails and you could do it. In fact many airport monorails do this now. So, safe robot cars? This may be technically possible now - if you have zero people operated cars who can screw it all up. I have never been on Munk's Boring system in Las Vegas. A video that uses a car and driver is on youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djfYafWFWtk&ab_channel=CNET This needs to be changen to 10-12 passenger trollies - in time driverless, Tesla should make these trolley as there is a HUGE market for them in controlled right of way. As we sit random mixed human/robo are prey to erratic humans. An asphalt path on a route like the BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) is good as long as thuggery was dealt with. Any system will fail if wild humans can screw it up - we see wild humans (AKA homeless) in many cities. This is a complex drug/crime linked 'wild' system that has resisted control. It costs too much in wages to have paid drivers for the masses - they can not afford what the wealthy can.