Do trains on automatic stop more quickly?

[GrimerX]

I was playing around with modding trains to have less acceleration in both directions. While doing this I noticed it was taking significantly longer to brake when I am driving the train. At first I thought it was rail cars not contributing their braking_force but it happens with a single loco as well.

I can reproduce this in vanilla as well - I set up a race between two trains. The difference is significant.
Acceleration is the same (AFAICT given there is at least one human driver).
It feels like braking is about ~twice as effective on automatic.

Anyone else experience the same behavior? I couldn't find any mention of it.

[darkfrei]

Do you have braking force 7?
https://wiki.factorio.com/Braking_force_(research)

[GrimerX]

Ah, that was it. I used the Creative Mode mod to set up the test track. I didn't realize the tech only applied to automated trains. I removed the tech and tested again - both performed similarly this time.

Thank you!

[darkfrei]

Ah, that was it. I used the Creative Mode mod to set up the test track.

It's normally enough to enable it with console:

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/c game.player.cheat_mode=true

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/c for name, recipe in pairs(game.player.force.recipes) do 
  recipe.enabled = true 
end

So you can open recipes, but let technologies not researched.