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Almost all of the currently automated rail systems in the world have two things:

1. Full grade separation with no level crossings (often including platform edge doors along any station platforms the trains move through too)

2. Full fencing along the corridor.

Those are two things that isn’t true for almost any freight line.

Not to say it’s not possible with extremely extensive sensor and decision making systems but we’re probably not really there yet.






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