Southern plans to turn conductors into onboard supervisors, without control of the doors, which unions say will dilute the responsibilities of their role and the safety they provide.
Staff have walked out over plans to dispense with control of the doors by guards on all the operator's services.
The Victoria, Central, Northern and Jubilee lines already use Automatic Train Operation systems: the driver in the cab only operates the train in an emergency situation, but retains control of the doors.
Data acquisition, control of guillotine doors, and data analysis were performed by Image RM software (see 'Image analysis').
The researchers found that, among other things, an attacker could disable the vehicle's brakes, stop its engine, or take control of its door locks.
After gaining access through the federally mandated onboard diagnostics port located under the dashboard in almost all cars today they could disable a vehicle's brakes, stop its engine, or take control of its door locks, among other things.
27 We noted a lack of effect of controlling for door-to-balloon times on our point estimate of RR, even when using the accepted clinical cutpoint of ≤90 min as a confounding variable.
Whether or not you're comfortable ceding control of your front doors to a cloud-based assistant, however, is another question entirely.
While the system was shut down, the company took the opportunity to upgrade the cars' electrical circuitry, which governs their speed, braking, climate control and the opening of doors, said John S. Jacoby, assistant manager of airport services for the Port Authority.
The driver's control of the back door is just as imperious.
