> But then they timed their strikes for the Xmas season in order to maximise the suffering and economic damage it would cause.
Well, that's the point of going on strike. Don't blame the drivers, blame the rail company.
> It's not a stressful job
It actually is, there aren't that many jobs where you are literally responsible for hundreds if not nearly a thousand (ICE-4 has 918 seats alone plus probably 100-200 standing people) lives behind your seat. Even your A380 has only half of that as capacity. The only comparable job is being captain of a cruise liner ship.
> I am increasingly convinced that the second part of making rails great again, after putting rail companies in their place is driverless trains.
Driverless trains in practice only work on a closed system with no at-grade crossings of any kind. There's a reason we only see them in "peoplemover" style systems or in subways that usually have full-height doors preventing unauthorized access.
The only actual full-size railway running ATO is the Rio Tinto ore train in Australia... with large sections of the 800 km long drive having the advantage of being in the utter desert with no one and no thing besides kangaroos posing any sort of danger to the train.
Well, that's the point of going on strike. Don't blame the drivers, blame the rail company.
> It's not a stressful job
It actually is, there aren't that many jobs where you are literally responsible for hundreds if not nearly a thousand (ICE-4 has 918 seats alone plus probably 100-200 standing people) lives behind your seat. Even your A380 has only half of that as capacity. The only comparable job is being captain of a cruise liner ship.
> I am increasingly convinced that the second part of making rails great again, after putting rail companies in their place is driverless trains.
Driverless trains in practice only work on a closed system with no at-grade crossings of any kind. There's a reason we only see them in "peoplemover" style systems or in subways that usually have full-height doors preventing unauthorized access.
The only actual full-size railway running ATO is the Rio Tinto ore train in Australia... with large sections of the 800 km long drive having the advantage of being in the utter desert with no one and no thing besides kangaroos posing any sort of danger to the train.