France to run driverless mainline trains within five years 1 SHARES Share it! Many cities, including Paris, already run driverless metro trains but driverless long-distance travel presents a new set of challenges, Pepy said. Pepy said that autonomous trains “are clearly the future”, but he also said it may take time before passengers accept boarding driverless trains. Although Australia, China and Japan are already experimenting with driverless trains, France is not coming too late to the game, said Carole Desnost, head of innovation at SNCF. SNCF said it was talking to German operator Deutsche Bahn about promoting a European standard for driverless trains.

Source: Manila Bulletin September 13, 2018 00:56 UTC