| 100%, but smoke screen is over selling it. From the article > The project is being carried out in collaboration with Transport for London, QinetiQ, PA Consulting, Imperial College London and University of Sussex. QinetiQ is a UK weapons developer, probably the UKs largest. So the defence angle isn’t really being hidden. Older articles on this project from elsewhere outline the defence angle even more explicitly: https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/jun/15/lond... But IanVisits is a transport focused blog, so the article has a transport focus, rather than a defence focus. As to why any of this is happening on the underground, that’s pretty simple. Tube trains are a good real world test bed for this technology. Shove your quantum box on an existing train, drive it through the existing tunnels a few times as part of a normal tube service. Compare the run result and validate how accurate your technology is. It’s a lot cheaper than putting it on a boat or a submarine. Not to mention Imperial College London is based in… London. They’re literally a five minute walk from a tube station. |
being tested on trains makes complete sense