The Automated Railroad (Germany)

Germany's National Railway Plans To Remove Human Drivers

It's all part of a plan to provide efficient, door-to-door transportation that competes with Uber

Charlie Sorrel | May 11, 2016

Germany wants to replace human-driven trains with autonomous railway cars, as part of a grand master plan to provide end-to-end public transport throughout Europe. In an interview with Germany’s WirstschaftsWoche, Deutsche Bahn’s CEO Rüdiger Grube called self-driving trains "a major project for the railway."
Deutsche Bahn is Germany’s historic national rail company, and it operates all kinds of systems, from trains to car-sharing to bike-sharing programs. 

Germany's Deutsche Bahn National Reailway. Source: http://www.osservatorioantitrust.eu/it/forniture-ferroviarie-lagcm-estende-listruttoria-avviata-nel-febbraio-scorso-alla-societa-i-e-e-industrie-elettromeccaniche-europee-s-r-l-2/

Advertising campaign for driver-less trains from Deutsche Bahn."This is your time". Source: http://www.pressreader.com/germany/hna-northeimer-neueste-nachrichten/20150507/282067685498694

<more at http://www.fastcoexist.com/3059727/germanys-national-railway-plans-to-remove-human-drivers; related articles and links: http://uk.reuters.com/article/us-germany-railway-driverless-autos-idUKKCN0XW10N (German railway operator lines up driverless automobile service. May 5, 2016) and http://fortune.com/2016/05/07/deutsche-bahn-self-driving-cars/ (Why Europe's Biggest Railway is Working on Self-Driving Cars. May 7, 2016)>