lionheart

Has anybody else checked out the practice runs currently being made near Jebel Ali? They have some good photos on gulfnews.com from which you will see that drivers are being deployed. To be honest, the prospect of an unmanned train in this country worries me...incidentally, is it hot enough for you newbies, yet? 45degC this morning

NorthernLad

How can an unmanned train be any worse than the tossers driving on SZR 24 hours a day?

shakh your bootie

Driverless train technolocy works fine on the DLR & other train systems throughout the world.... why would it not work here?

lionheart

But surely they would have only selected top quality engine drivers from the USA rather than the tossers you have in mind for such a prestigious role

lionheart

Simply because this is Dubai and very little works here for longer than a few months before it has to be thrown away The occasional sandstorm may not help matters.

shakh your bootie

Chill, dude. I hear that the guys writing the Metro software are the same people that brought you the T5 baggage handling system.....

Get on that train, LH, get on that train.

Inselaffen

wasnt that the guys from the Lost Baggage auction company?

shakh your bootie

Yes indeed.... The Order of the Rosy Cross. They also shot JFK, MLK and J R Ewing....

Inselaffen

yes we did

shakh your bootie

You and David Icke and the other reptilian humanoids????

When's the spaceship due?

Inselaffen

yesterday but Tom Cruise nicked it!

shakh your bootie

Ha ha..... We're so getting moved to the sandpit......

I'm going to dare venture the opinion that the RTA is making pretty good progress on this project.....

W10

This might keep it on topic for two seconds

http://www.gulfnews.com/gntv/videos/10212679.html

http://www.gulfnews.com/nation/Traff.../10212650.html

shakh your bootie

Good stuff - they are doing very well to keep to programme on this one.

Surprised , tho, that the article gives a top speed of 40kph???? A top athlete can run faster than that. Well, for a few seconds, anyway...

The new stock on the London Underground can get up to 100kph????

shiva

yes but have you seen how flat the track is...ie any faster and they would jump. There are some pretty severe changes of angle most of which appear random.