On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 19:13:55 +0000, Edward Cowling London UK wrote:

Hi fellow brother of the damned, I do the same awful route :-) I've
lost track of the times I've started to move towards the doors, only to
have the train stop dead and chuck me about. I don't get this on the
Piccadilly line.

Plus the trains don't wait at the platform like the human driven trains
do if there is a bad morning with the trains up ahead. They just stop in
the bloody tunnel.

All in all give me a human being at the wheel any day.

It's still a human being that presses the buttons to close the doors
and start the train moving.

That's like calling the guy in the space capsule a pilot :-)

My point was that whether or not the trains wait in the platform when
there's a delay up ahead is still entirely human-controlled.