metro train make weekday debut
'Unreal': Sydney's rush hour goes smoothly as driverless metro trains make weekday debut
It's 7.40am on Monday morning and Stiofan Sexton is about to do something he has never done before – and he doesn't even know it. Waiting on the platform at Sydney's Chatswood station, he is one of the first thousand passengers on the new fully driverless Metro Northwest in its first weekday rush-hour test. He used to take a slow bus up to work in North Ryde. Now he steps on to a carriage that goes up to 100km/h, along a 66km track, with service every four minutes, all run by a single computer. Asked by Guardian Australia how he feels about the fully automated train, he says he did not realise it was.