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Considering we’ve needed an easier way to travel between Brooklyn and Queens like, yesterday–since riders are currently forced to transfer across multiple subway lines or take an obnoxiously long detour through Manhattan–NYC’s Interborough Express (IBX) has quickly become one of the city’s most anticipated transit projects. And while progress has been slow, it is happening: this past July, the MTA board approved the full design, and now an NYC urban planning research group is calling on the MTA to make the IBX a fully driverless system.

As part of a new study , the research group partnered with NYU’s Marron Institute of Urban Management, which reviewed hundreds of train systems across dozens of countries to see how many trains operate with two, one, or even zero train operator

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