WASHINGTON — Metro wants to try automatic train operation again, and soon. By this December, it hopes to automate the Red Line. Automatic train operation was halted 15 years ago after the deadliest ...

Fifteen years after two trains collided on the Red Line, killing nine people, WMATA is considering a move back to automated trains. Investigators determined it was not automation that caused that ...

WASHINGTON — WMATA wants to bring automated trains back to the entire system, but after a trial run on the red line, the safety watchdog is pushing back. Metro activated automated train operation or ...

This video is no longer available. Monday was the first big commuter day where riders hopped aboard fully automated trains on Metro’s Red Line. As they went about their busy morning with heads down ...

The safety oversight panel monitoring Metro’s rail system said in the first 10 days of automated train operation on the Green and Yellow Lines, there have been significantly less station overruns than ...

WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — After a 15-year hiatus, Metro is poised to resume its Automated Train Operation (ATO), beginning on the tracks along the Red Line. ATO is purportedly safer than manual train ...

The collision of three Norfolk Southern trains in Pennsylvania early this month highlights the shortcomings of the automated braking system that was created to prevent such crashes. None of the ...