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The world’s first railless electric train began test operations in Zhuzhou, central China’s Hunan Province, on Tuesday.

It combines the advantages of modern buses with those of trains and can be precisely controlled with a set of virtual tracks laid out on urban roads.

What makes these railless electric trains different?
The railless electric train looks just like tramcar. Based on the amount of passengers, the train can be split into three to five carriages, each carrying up to 100 people.

Powered by electricity, the train can run at a speed of 70km/h, much like modern streetcars, and travel 25 kilometers on only a 10-minute charge.

Although called “railless”, the train follows an invisible “rail” based on a system dubbed Autonomous Rail Rapid Transit (ART), which was developed by CRRC Zhuzhou Locomotive. Using sensors, the system can identify painted lines on roads and the train can then plan its own routes and operate without a driver.

With no need for rails and pipelines, the train can run on urban roads like buses and cars, and, although no manual operation is needed when changing lanes or making turns, a driver will be on board to ensure safety.

According to Hubei Daily, the train will run autonomously under the guide of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System in the future.

http://www.vondanews.com/worlds-first-railless-electric-train-given-trial-run-in-china/

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With the kind of leaders that we've been electing, we will never get to produce a technology of this kind, even in the farthest centuries to come....

yanabasee:
With the kind of leaders that we've been electing, we will never get to produce a technology of this kind, even in the farthest centuries to come....

I am telling you

cool one dis

if it is from China, no doubt.

princeade86:
if it is from China, no doubt.

They are good, One of the Best

China and rail transportation system. Make I go enter napep

Chai Chai chai!!!i am speechless,sad and I just have to give up on Nigerian leaders.Even the pencil we claim to produce is substandard!!!tooth pick nko?that one is a disaster

Wow... See how countries of the World are advancing.

I think so the engineering lecturers in Nigeria should be taken to JSS1 to teach what they know now as Introductory Technology and recruit the Chinese to visit and reform our universities. NUC should be conducting common entrance exams into secondary schools and regulating the curriculum in Primary schools. Then COREN should be scrapped or headed by Oga engineer from that building site across the street.

It's not a problem of leaders, but of the garbage being taught.

pacino26:
I think so the engineering lecturers in Nigeria should be taken to JSS1 to teach what they know now as Introductory Technology and recruit the Chinese to visit and reform our universities. NUC should be conducting common entrance exams into secondary schools and regulating the curriculum in Primary schools. Then COREN should be scrapped or headed by Oga engineer from that building site across the street.

It's not a problem of leaders, but of the garbage being taught.

The leaders are also playing the wrong path, instead of looking into some matters they are trying to add one more year to the university