The context of this discussion is my claim that "the adoption of electric, centrally controlled doors was naturally motivated in major part by timeliness."
You're claiming that this is refuted by the Wikipedia article, but I don't see any evidence for that. To be clear, I'm open to evidence that this isn't the case, there just isn't any there, because it discusses motives for adopting centrally controlled doors in the 1990s when the technology for centrally controlled doors was already widely available. It doesn't tell us anything about the initial motives for developing the technology for centrally controlled train doors many decades earlier, just that later on an additional motive showed up which drove some additional (late) adoption.
You're claiming that this is refuted by the Wikipedia article, but I don't see any evidence for that. To be clear, I'm open to evidence that this isn't the case, there just isn't any there, because it discusses motives for adopting centrally controlled doors in the 1990s when the technology for centrally controlled doors was already widely available. It doesn't tell us anything about the initial motives for developing the technology for centrally controlled train doors many decades earlier, just that later on an additional motive showed up which drove some additional (late) adoption.