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.
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