Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Docklands Light Railway is automated (though still has ‘train captains’ on board), but has still continued to suffer ...

Tucked away off Highway 126, on a network of railway tracks sometimes used to shoot movies, a local startup is testing what it says is the future of transportation: driverless freight trains. Parallel ...

If the Vegas Loop is anything to go by, the ongoing technological arms race to develop driverless cars has seemingly distracted taxpayer dollars from tried and true methods of public transportation.

Imagine a rail system where trains run smoothly without anyone controlling them. Hamburg has made this Black Forest fairy tale real, ordering 87 driverless S-Bahn trains from Siemens. These trains use ...

In railroading, danger is omnipresent. Freight train crews, typically consisting of a conductor and an engineer, bear the awesome responsibility of keeping a critical piece of the supply chain moving.

A rail line linking two northern Czech towns is testing Europe's first driverless train operating in an open environment, its developer told AFP on Tuesday. The train named Edita has been running ...

After 20 years as an aerospace engineer, including 13 years at SpaceX, Matt Soule sought a new transportation challenge he could channel into a startup. He chose electric battery autonomous freight ...

Imagine a rail system where trains run smoothly without anyone controlling them. Hamburg has made this Black Forest fairy tale real, ordering 87 driverless S-Bahn trains from Siemens. These trains use ...