London Underground software failure raises concerns about driverless trains

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Jubilee line suffered an outage for almost an hour

London Underground (LU) has confirmed that it suffered a software failure last week that caused the control centre of the Jubilee line to go down for almost an hour. The Rail, Maritime and Trans...

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