Technology
China has unveiled the world’s first rail-less, driverless train that’s loaded with powerful sensors for reading the dimensions of road and planning its own route as it sticks to a pair of white lines painted on the tracks.
The train, named Autonomous Rail Rapid Transit (ART), has been developed by Chinese rail provider CRRC, to improve public transit in Zhuzhou, a medium-sized city with too limited resources to afford high installation costs of rail system, notes Design Boom.
The 30 meters long bus-train hybrid runs on electricity and can touch a top speed of 70 kilometers per hour with the capacity of nearly 500 passengers, writes Voice of America.
