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Rio rails without drivers

DRIVERLESS trains will be the norm for Rio Tinto’s multi-million tonne Pilbara iron ore transport system, the mining major said today.

Charlotte Dudley
Rio rails without drivers

Rio Tinto has announced a $US350 million ($A373.4 million) commitment to automate its Pilbara iron ore railway network and said by 2013 driverless trains would operate on most of the miner’s 13,000km of...

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