From the highway packed with crawling traffic heading downtown you
can see the tangle of buckled carriages skewed across the track.
Final test runs of the AirTrain, San Francisco's state-of-the-art
driverless airport link, don't seem to be going to plan.
One of the trains has come off the rails and crashed into another
travelling in the opposite direction. The taxi driver points and
shrugs; this is not a city that runs smoothly.
It's three years since the dot com bubble burst and San Francisco,
despite having been its birthplace, is still having trouble getting
to grips with technology. It isn't just the AirTrain that has
problems, the police are struggling too.
With the city's crime rates soaring, the San Francisco Police
Department has conceded - some 20 years behind other forces - that
perhaps it wouldn't be a bad idea to keep a central database of
information on known criminals. The last...
