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How Fiat Chrysler Crafts Profits In Unique Ways: The Curious Case Of The Dodge Durango
Nov.10.17 | About: Fiat Chrysler (FCAU)
Anton Wahlman
FCA is criticized for selling cars based on old platforms. For example, who would make a three-row SUV based on a muscle-cop car with almost 500 horsepower?
Well, FCA did with Dodge Durango, and it’s on track for 75,000 annual 2017 sales in the U.S. and Canada combined, almost 2x Tesla.
The Dodge Durango is one example of how FCA has exploited a niche in the market to come up with a car that really lacks a direct peer.
This shows how the market is under-appreciating FCA’s ability to yield profitable financial outcomes despite less R&D and green-driverless investment than its peers.
103 years ago, November 10, 1914, the first Dodge rolled off the line. After not quite 103 years of spending time with almost all major automakers, one thing stands out to this analyst: Fiat Chrysler (FCAU) is different than the others.
FCA is occasionally mocked in the media for having too few investments in electrification, hydrogen or "new platforms." It is viewed as a laggard which has underinvested in new cars and their associated technology. Its R&D budget is too small. It's selling too few electric cars at a $20,000 a unit loss. It needs to merge.
I'm here to tell you that FCA is able to grow its profits because it does things a little differently than all the other automakers. It doesn't cost more to design a more beautiful ca than an old car. It also doesn't cost anything to avoid spending billions of dollars on technology that's fashionable among 22-year-old laptop reviewers in San Francisco and among "spend other people's money" government bureaucrats, but are shunned by regular people.
FCA's Dodge brand is a case in point. It's most certainly not a Toyota (TM) Prius or a Tesla (TSLA). In fact, it's pretty much the opposite.
Dodge sells the last remaining true muscle cars: The Challenger is a coupe that unlike its General Motors (GM) and Ford (F) ostensible rivals, actually fits adults in the back seat. That makes a huge difference for a lot of people. There's nothing wrong with a Camaro or a Mustang, but the Dodge Challenger does retro better - and more practical - than its Detroit rivals. It's a classic just like the Porsche 911.
You can even get the muscle car in a four-door version, the Charger, which is a popular cop car as well. And yeah, you can get it with either all-wheel drive (AWD) or 707 horsepower 6.2 liter V8. No other car makes you feel like Clint Eastwood in Dirty Harry ca 1971.
But wait, when it comes to Dodge, it gets even better.
This is 2017, so SUVs are all the rage, even more so than when they first emerged in a meaningful way in the 1990s. What if we took a muscle car, made a three-row SUV out of it, and sold it for as little as $30,000?
Any other automaker would laugh at this proposition. The car would either be a lot more expensive - think Mercedes GLS, its closest mechanical competitor, which starts around $70,000 with the top trim over $125,000 - or it wouldn't really be a rear wheel drive based unibody muscle car.
But not Dodge. Rear-wheel-drive-based unibody muscle car, starting at $30,000? It's so crazy and politically incorrect that… only Dodge could make it.
No, it is neither a joke nor a dream: Dodge actually went ahead and made a muscle car in a three-row SUV format. And it's been a raging success. So far this year in 2017, it has sold 57,829 Durangos in the U.S. and 5,596 in Canada: FCA US Media - FCA US Reports October 2017 Sales. It is therefore on track for approximately 75,000 Durangos sold in U.S. and Canada combined in 2017.
That compares to 37,257 for Tesla thus far in the year, on these shores: Monthly Plug-In Sales Scorecard.
In other words, this muscle-car SUV from Dodge outsold Tesla by not too far from 2:1 in 2017 on these shores. Considering that FCA actually makes money, and Tesla is operating at a 22% negative margin, one might ask why FCA's Dodge Durango isn't worth at least in the ballpark of as much as all of Tesla's entire market cap, currently at over $50 billion even before applying the fully diluted share count.
FCA's Dodge Durango may be outselling Tesla by almost 2:1 on these shores, and at healthy profitability, but is this muscle-car three-row SUV any good? To find out, I spent a collective few days behind the wheels of each of the Durango's three engine variants - one V6 and two V8s.
In the briefest of terms, the Durango V6 has little over 300 horsepower, and the two V8s each have just under 400 and 500 horsepower each. The 5.7 liter V8 is a $4,000 option, and if you want the most powerful 6.4 liter V8 with almost 500 horsepower, it starts around $64,000. Think about it, it's essentially half the price of the Mercedes GLS AMG, arguably its closest competitor. One might argue that the Audi Q7 is the second-closest competitor, offering a longitudinal V6 but no V8 in the U.S. market. Still, even without the V8, the Audi Q7 is a lot more expensive than the Dodge Durango.
Having driven all three engine variants of the Durango, I have firm advice: Just get the base V6. 300 horsepower is more than enough for all but the most extreme towing needs. That said, if you need to tow 8,700 lbs instead of 6,200, you need to pay up for the larger engine.
In its class, however, the typical three-row unibody SUV tows 5,000. Nissan (OTCPK:NSANY) Pathfinder is the leader of the transversely mounted class at 6,000 lbs. Audi Q7 is at 7,700 lbs. Want to tow even more than 8,700 lbs in your SUV? Well, then the all-new aluminum body-on-frame 2018 Ford Expedition is for you.
Why stick with the base V6? The biggest engine with almost 500 horsepower is just too noisy, and I had trouble getting it above 16 MPG no matter how I tried. The 5.7 liter V8 isn't noisy at all, but it's still thirsty, yielding 22 MPG highway and 14 MPG city.
I did drive the 6.4 liter V8 version on a racetrack, and considering all the ways it is beefed up, it would still be the choice of the very few who will race this almost 500 horsepower muscle car SUV. It's certainly the right car for the soccer father who needs to feel like Dirty Harry on a moment's notice.
The Durango is tied with the best car of any kind for in-cabin ease of use. There's just nothing in this cockpit to confuse the driver. Every automaker should follow this example and stay away from infusing too much confusing technology that does not belong in front of the driver.
I mentioned above how the Dodge Durango handily outsells all of Tesla in North America. Well, it beats Tesla in another category too: Infotainment technology. Unlike Tesla, Dodge Durango has both Apple (AAPL) CarPlay and Android (NASDAQ:GOOG) (GOOGL) Auto. Once you have tried these, you most likely don't want to do without them.
For reference, I had driven the GMC Terrain around the same time as the Durango. The GMC Terrain was approximately as lovely as the Durango overall, especially as it concerns the cabin interior. However, the front-wheel-drive based platform illustrates how it also felt very different to drive.
Whereas the GMC Terrain is very soft and cushy, you feel like you're driving an elevated hard-sprung muscle car with the Durango. Some will like that, some won't, and yet others can go either way. I'm probably in the last category. That said, you just can't deny the smile that goes along with driving the Durango's muscle car platform.
FCA's investor relations department really needs to do a better job pointing out how FCA's superior niche-crafting has led to major market success in most profitable market segments. If it had been Tesla coming out with a muscle car SUV and obtained these sales numbers, it could have been assigned somewhere in the ballpark of $50 billion of value. Instead, FCA's entire market cap today is half of that, $26 billion - and the Dodge Durango is barely 1% of the company's overall global unit sales.
Something is clearly wrong in the market's valuation of automakers. The Dodge Durango and how it fits inside FCA's $26 billion market cap, looking to the outside world of far loftier valuations, is one good example of this.
Disclosure: I am/we are short TSLA.
I wrote this article myself, and it expresses my own opinions. I am not receiving compensation for it (other than from Seeking Alpha). I have no business relationship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article.
Additional disclosure: At the time of submitting this article for publication, the author was short TSLA and long GOOGL. However, positions can change at any time. The author regularly attends press conferences, new vehicle launches and equivalent, hosted by most major automakers. FCA hosted product launch events and provided the cars for review.
View from Royal Park Hotel the Shiodome, 35th floor. On the left is the metro station for the Yurikamome driverless trains. The raised track on the right is for the normal trains and Shinkansen bullet trains
The Manœuvres video series is part of a body of works that I’ve been developing since 2016 based on observing the R&D of driverless cars and dash cam compilations.
La série Manœuvres fait partie d'un corpus qui s'inspire des technologies utilisées par les véhicules autonomes et des compilations d’enregistreurs de conduites (dash cams).
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A train of Copenhagen's driverless Metro approaches the temporary terminus of Orientkaj. An extension of metro line M4 is planned for the end of the decade. As in many other harbour cities, former harbour areas have been converted for office and residential use.
T122 trails a sister unit departing Macquarie Park station. This is now history with the Epping - Chatswood line being converted to single deck driverless metro.
This scene of everday life is in Walsall, mid-morning and it is quiet, most are at work and others shop or talk. Across the road Walsall trolleybus 858 a Willowbrook bodied Sunbeam F4A is driverless and closer to the camera a drafted in ex Birmingham Metro-Cammell bodied Guy, 2583, is loaded and waiting to leave.
Peter Shoesmith
61 cm x 61 cm
24" x 24"
2016 - 2019
Urethane and acrylic binders, pigments in dispersal water, dry iridescent pigments and resin on panel.
Purchase inquiries to bruceriley@bruce-riley.com
Overbite is painted on a 1 1/2" hollow core panel panel . The paint layer is 1/8 " thick.
Overbite was originally a commission from a car company to make several films of my paint spreading on two foot panels. The films were to be used as source material for touch screens in driverless cars. They wanted the human touch. I suggested setting me up with a studio in Paris for a year would yield some good source material. I've not heard back, The films can be seen on my website. www.bruce-riley
I got to keep all but one of the paintings per contract. This painting sat around for several years until 2019 when I reworked it. The paint layer is built up from the original commission with a loose, accidental hand. On top of the dried paint I applied a thin coat of resin with the intention of starting another paint layer. I however found I liked the painting as it is so I left it alone.
Not being satisfied with being the home to the tallest skyscraper, the largest shopping centre, and the longest driverless metro system in the world, Dubai has finished its newest man-made wonder of the world. The ‘Dubai frame’ has opened its doors to the public at the beginning of this new year, with the official press release stating it was a “New Year gift to the people.” It has perked the interest of many people, especially those who have never visited the wonderful capital of the United Arab Emirate. It is widely expected to become a global attraction spot for tourists, estimating that it alone will be attracting a further 2 million tourists annually, right in the centre of one of the longest parks in Dubai.
But how did we get here, and how did such an odd creation come into existence?
Following the government’s ideology of creating a superior city that is touristically appealing, the country ran an art competition back in 2008 for “The new face of Dubai.”
What Dubai ended with instead, is a monstrous 150 metre, eye popping gold plated structure. This was on top of the £35 million spent on building the frame.
Facing the north side of the frame, would show visitors the ‘old’ Dubai, whilst looking to the south offers a view into the ‘new ‘Dubai. The idea was to create an illusion of time travel through the frame. A kind of Warp vortex, if you will.
The structure of this frame consists of a couple of towers that are perfectly aligned, with a connecting bridge.
The bridge is 93 metres long, and allows for the frame to be more than a philosophical selfie-friendly landmark. Located near the beautiful (and enormous) Zabeel Park, it invites visitors, who become struck by the sheer amount of gold surrounding the structure. It is surrounded by contrastingly simple, yet beautiful blue dancing watered fountains.
Unfortunately the process of buying tickets isn’t any more splendorous than anywhere else. You queue, you wait, you get your ticket.
But once tickets have been secured and you begin wandering inside, then you really start feeling a difference as you’re greeted by ‘old’ Dubai photographs, along the hallways. They offer a real raw sense of pride in the evolution the city has taken over the past few years. It even features a museum, referencing back to the past.
It even has holographic images and videos. For a city that has come so far, they really don’t seem to try and hide their roots.
Getting inside the elevator and staring out the clear glass panel into palm trees, quickly makes you realise the crazy reality Dubai is creating. A dream-like world of riches, among a very real world. As the elevators begin elevating, taking its visitors to the very top, the views Zabeel Park has to offer become insanely stunning.
The bridge connecting the two towers is more than it appears to be. Visitors can count on multiple shops inside, offering food and drinks, and of course, tourist ornaments, such as mugs, hats, and adorable mini versions of ‘the frame.’
The sky deck offers a 360 degree view of the city, as well as a downward view through the transparent floor glass. Two hundred people can come inside at any one time.
Looking to one side, the view sports many riches, such as tall buildings surrounded by motorways, countless shopping centres separated by fountains and greenery. Among the riches sits the famously tall skyscraper built in 2010, Burj Khalifa. The building that broke countless height records including some of its own, to be named as the tallest tower in the world. It’s a way to really witness the prowess of the vision of those in charge. A metropolis city that looks like it was create in the popular video game, the sims.
Looking the opposite way offers quite a different experience, one we would perhaps be more familiar with somewhere in Europe. It shows ‘old’ Dubai, and its more humble sized buildings. Its grey look, reminiscent of Paris.
One does wonder how the locals living in ‘old’ Dubai, feel about this kind of money and willingness to build gold plated monuments.
Even if the frame is ‘only’ half the size of the famous Eiffel Tower, there’s definitely a different feel to being on the frame, that can perhaps be described as a more ‘modernised’ feeling.
Upon making a way out of the frame and back into the real world, visitors have to walk into ‘the future museum,’ with holographic images showing Dubai’s skyline. Look closely to the floor, and you’ll notice the lasers across shooting from different corners of the room are. Actually forming different shapes. Almost hinting at what’s to come but without giving anything away, really. There s however a short video at the end that demonstrates how the city is committed to solar power. And also, flying cars.
Once the short video that is in constant loop. The video entices people to what Dubai will look like in 2050. There is an a very obvious feeling of pride of what is being achieved in a city that was built on a desert.
The last thing visitors will see before getting into the elevator is a social media wall, which basically highlights photos from the 200 people up at the bridge. Visitors can then purchase their own photos as a souvenir.
As visitors begin descending from the bridge, back down below, they can take another good long look at what Zabeel Park has to offer.
They immediately head there once they touch down.
The park that was created in 2005, in the Al Kifaf area, is divided into numerous sectors connected by pedestrian bridges.
Earlier I made reference to the Zabeel Park being enormous, so let me tell you just how much – 52 hectares. That’s equivalent to more than 50 football grounds. If you forget where you park your car in your local supermarket, you will definitely lost your car here, as there are 2300 spaces.
The three sections consist of various different activities such as a 4.3km jogging track, a cricket ground, BMX track, skateboarding park, barbecue and picnic areas, – which if trip advisor review are to be believed, you get a lot of them, maybe overly so – ice skating, a boating lake with classy lakeside restaurants, and also exhibition galleries.
The park was renowned for being the largest multi-million Dubai Municipality project, – that was over, of course, once the the frame of Dubai was built – carrying a high technology theme.
For example, the Stargate family edutainment centre, that covers over 260.000 square feet of the park’s layout has created an educational place filled with technological advances. Especially considering this was built back in 2006.
The edutainment centre contains various different areas known through as our celestial counterparts. Such as, Saturn, where families can enjoy a 3D (as well as 2D) movie theatre, in a 80×40 square feet screen.
This isn’t just a regular movie theatre though. They have theatres as well as game rooms where – this is going to sound insanely cool – the movies and games are brought to life through laser shows. Some of the 3D games are interactive games, where Half the audience can play against the other half of the audience.
An Area called Mars, contains a play area that is children-friendly, called Zero gravity. No, unfortunately you can’t float in the air, in it, but your kid can still have a blast! There is a roller-skating track, wall climbing activities, and a dedicated colourful room for birthday parties.
Then, of course there’s an area called Earth, that has an electric indoor Go Karting track. This is called No Speed Limit. Sounds very earth-like, especially in comparison to what the Saturn area had to offer. Fortunately, Earth has more to offer, with a futuristic UFO. Zone containing brand new robotic simulated rides as well as sophisticated 4D VR (Virtual reality) rides.
In case you were wondering, there is also an area called Moon. There, you will find a lunar shaped ice-skating rink, with artificial snow falling every 30 minutes.
One of the key offerings in the park, at least for the locals, is in the underground section of all these fun packed activity rooms.
This area is the home of the Stargate Academy. A place dedicated to offering scheduled classes in classic arts, music, technology, along with “a world class” nursery.
This has proven to be a popular destination for after school activity seekers, or for native families to come on holiday to.
Whether Fernando is right, or wrong, in relation to who created the idea, the reality for the rest of us is that this is real.
Dubai is becoming a city that is harder to ignore with each passing monument.
It’s no surprise to see them wanting to build something that is a statement in its own right, such as the frame. It not only capitalises on the magnitude of this park (Zabeel) but it highlights Dubai to the rest of the world once again.
It has proven to be an ever growing centre of the world, where money definitely is no issue, at least when it comes to flashing it to the rest of the world, making us all envious. Whatever your thoughts of Dubai, I would be amazed if you did not feel tempted to visit it just for this little area the article describes.
It’s a fun, energetic place, whose reality completely contrasts ours out in the west.
There’s a sense of everything being grand, and promising. Most people would find it to be an experience like no other.
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Metroselskabet I/S: the train number 20 of the driverless København metro reaches the Øresund station.
When talking about Japan, one can't help but state just impressive their railway system is; as a train nerd, if you want to see how trains are run then you only have to look at how the Japanese run their systems.
Within Tokyo, the heavy rail system is predominantly operated by the East Japan Railway Company or JR East, the company serving the wider Kantō region of Japan as well as Shinkansen serving serving the Tōhoku region to the north.
The most synonymous rail line within the Tokyo metropolitan area is JR East's Yamanote Line, an orbital loop that encompasses the major areas of the city, serving Tokyo Station itself which is a hub of Shinkansen services across Japan, with stations served being Shinagawa, Shibuya, Harajuku, Shinjuku and Ikebukuro to the east of the city, whilst to the west includes Ueno and Akihabara. The line alongside the Keihin-Tōhoku provides a connection at Hamamatsuchō for the Tokyo Monorail to Haneda Airport.
Whenever you are in Japan, it is almost certain you will be using the Yamanote Line as your base of operations, and it shouldn't come as a surprise it is one of the busiest services in the country, utilising 11-car long J-TREC-built E235-0 series trains built from 2015. 50 sets were built in total, replacing the strong fleet of 52 E231-500 sets that have operated on the line since 2002 up until early-2020, now residing on the cross-city Chūō–Sōbu Line from Mitaka to the west and Chiba to the east of Tokyo which replaced the majority of the older E231-0 series units, cascaded onto other JR East within Greater Tokyo.
Today, the Yamanote Line uses Digital-Automatic Train Control in-cab signalling with the majority of station platforms having been retrofitted with platform edge doors except at Shibuya and Shinjuku which are amongst the busiest stations in the world.
Future plans for the Yamanote Line will see the implementation of Automatic Train Operation (ATO) which saw trials commence in late-2022, with plans for full installation by 2028, making it the first JR East line to be driverless. In similar vein to other driverless trains that we see such as the London Underground, a driver will still be required.
My love affair of Japan has certainly reignited my passion for trains and the railway in general.
E235-0 Series Set 24 arrives at Shibuya (JY20) on a clockwise Yamanote Line service via Shinjuku and Ikebukuro.
Masdar City (مدينة مصدر, Madīnat Maṣdar) is an arcology project in Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates. The initial design banned automobiles, as travel will be accomplished via public mass transit and personal rapid transit (PRT) systems, with existing road and railways connecting to other locations outside the city.
Turin has a driverless metro system based on the VAL system. As in other cities with automatic metro trains the pltaforms have doors that open as a train arrives.
Parked up, driverless, in the centre of Sutton Coldfield is Scania N230ud Omnicity B57 XKZ. Facing the other way is a Central Buses AD Dart with AD B37F body new to Cavalier, Long Sutton in August 2006.
09/07/2013
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Dubai has a quick, efficient and clean metro system, and the driverless trains offer good views front and back. Burj Khalifa on the right. 2nd October 2014.
Stagecoach in Lincolnshire have for some time been operating these gas converted Optare Solo's, however recently they have been fitted with brand new bespoke engines replacing the original Cummins ISBe 6-cylinder units. Seen at the rear is FX04WFR which was new to Lincolnshire RoadCar in April 2004 as fleet number 111, now becoming Stagecoach 47271. At the front is YM55SVL which was new to Stagecoach in February 2006 as fleet number 47399. It has to be said that the performance of these Solo's is electrifying, which is a reasonable achievement considering that Cummins 6-cylinder powered Solo's weren't exactly slow to start with! Sadly, the driverless 47399 had actually broken down in the layby, the engine had cut out and refused to restart, which appears to be one of the teething problems with these conversions.
Metro Taipei Circular Line Driverless 104
台北捷運環狀線電聯車 104
Circular Line Xingfu Station 環狀線 幸福站
Xinzhuang District, New Taipei City 新北市新莊區
The See-Meile Route today in Berlin-Tegel is on a trial run until the end of the year, in order to test driverless public transport in general service, as well as to see how other drivers and the public react to the vehicles.
T83 arrives into Platform 1 at North Ryde with a Penrith via Chatswood service from Hornsby.
On the 30th September 2018, the Epping - Chatswood Rail Link (ECRL) was closed to be converted to a "Metro" as part of the Sydney Metro project, a driverless train system running from Tallawong, near Riverstone, to Sydenham, with plans to extend to Bankstown.
Sunday 23rd September 2018
For all those kids who will be dissapointed to learn their dream of driving a super dumper is being scuttled by computerized AI driverless machines.
After a barbeque evening at work, I walked slowly through the center of Copenhagen towards the Central Station. At Kings Square, next to the Danish Royal Theatre (the building on the left) is entrance to the Metro. The Copenhagen Metro is a new one, only about 10 years old. It has driverless trains and a very futuristic look. I may go down at shoot some there as well.
About the composition
I rested the camera on the rails going down into the metro. This gives strong lead in lines from the rails. The edge of the stairwell also works as lead in lines. Above ground the buildings also works as lead in lines. There’s a lot of lead in lines in this photo.
About the processing
This is a 5 shot HDR photo, ranging from -2 to +2, with one EV step between each. Actually this is the second time I processed this photo. The first time I missed the fact that my camera had moved slightly between two shots. This was visible only in some parts of the photo if viewed at a 100%. This time I made sure, that auto-align was selected in Photomatix. This is a photo with mixed light. Electrical underground and natural evening light above ground. This gives two different white ballances. This gave me a very bluish color to everything outside of the metro. I removed a lot of the blue and cyan colors by duplicating the layer in Photoshop, pressing CTRL+U and then select the blue color. I then turned down the saturation. And then I did the same for cyan. Then I closed the dialog, added a layer mask, and then painted on the layer mask so that I mixed in what I liked from each layer. You can see details about how to blend layers in Photoshop caughtinpixels.com/?page_id=448.
How to handle moving things
There was a lot of trafic of people going up and down the stairs, the guy with bicycle and cars and busses going by. I had fairly long exposures, so everything was kind of blurry, which looks cool with the cars. I waited until there were fewer people and then I was able to combine a complete staircase with no people, by mixing in 3 of the 5 shots. Being an HDR photos I had to adjust the exposure and look and feel of each of the photos before blending it in. If I hadn’t done that I would had light and dark patches of staircase, depending on which photo I used to blend in.
The Shuttle, an electric driverless vehicle currently being tested on the Thames path near the O2 at north Greenwich. This never went into service.
If I can obtain a duplicate model in my collection cheaply, I'll usually do a bit of detailing, mainly adding passengers and a driver as there's nothing worse than having a layout / diorama with driverless buses. I'll keep the as issued version for depot scenes and the ones with figures added to be dotted out and about working for a living.
This is EFE 28817, A Leyland Titan in London Buses livery which has benefited from a driver and passengers being added.
Two 1981-built Greenwood & Batley electric locomotives 514 and 524 stabled at Mount Pleasant on the GPO Railway on 2nd February 1982. Although the 2ft gauge railway was first mooted in 1917, it wasn’t for a further ten years before the system began carrying mail between Paddington and Mount Pleasant with its driverless trains, the first such in the world. Changing technology finally led to its closure in 2003, but part of it, including a loop of line, is being reopened to the public as a heritage site and museum.
© Gordon Edgar - Photographer Roy Burt -All rights reserved. Please do not use this image without my explicit permission.
Strathclyde Partnership for Transport (SPT) unveiled a £200m contract with Stadler and Ansaldo STS in 2016 for modernisation of the Subway, including new rolling stock. These trains are expected to enter service after the modernisation is complete in 2020.
17 new trains will be built: these will feature the potential for driverless operation, as well as wider gangways for wheelchairs, and compatibility with platform screen doors.The new trains will be the same length and size as the current trains, but will be made up of 4 carriages rather than the present 3.The new trains were first shown to the public at InnoTrans 2018.
Learn more about this pilot project here: www.nps.gov/yell/learn/management/automated-shuttle-pilot...
NPS / Jacob W. Frank
A nice view here of a low bridge all Leyland PD2 resting while the driver vacates the cab briefly. Hunter's was one of those North Tyneside independents which generally ran on services which ended up at the coast. With blind set for Whitley Bay the well presented PD is part of a vintage scene which includes Shell fuel pumps and to the left a number of sturdy looking terraced housing.
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The basic technology of agricultural machines has changed little in the last century. Though modern harvesters and planters may do a better job or be slightly tweaked from their predecessors, the US$250,000 combine of today still cuts, threshes, and separates grain in the same way it has always been done. However, technology is changing the way that humans operate the machines, as computer monitoring systems, GPS locators and self-steer programs allow the most advanced tractors and implements to be more precise and less wasteful in the use of fuel, seed, or fertilizer. In the foreseeable future, there may be mass production of driverless tractors, which use GPS maps and electronic sensors.
The Australia and New Zealand Driverless Vehicle Initiative (ADVI) displayed a driverless vehicle at CeBIT Australia held at the International Convention Centre at Sydney's Darling Harbour recently . The photographs show an autonomous vehicle developed by Easy Mile one of the companies that specialises in vehicles of this type.
Given that your mother has not visited the Las Vegas Strip in over 20 years, she may not fully appreciate how hot it gets in the afternoon, even in mid-September. 🌞🔥 So wouldn't it be really convenient if you and your mother could leisurely travel up and down the Fabulous Las Vegas Strip in the cool comfort of a ZOOX RoboTaxi!! 😅
You, of course, have never failed, during your 30+ years of doing Las Vegas, to appreciate how hot it gets in the Southern Nevada desert! 😅 You have seen plenty of hot September afternoons on the Strip when the temperature rose from 90+ in the morning to 110 by noon. 🌞🔥
You and your mother will not be doing a lot of outdoor sightseeing!
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Metro Taipei Circular Line Driverless 113
臺北捷運環狀線電聯車 113
Circular Line Touqianzhuang = Xingfu Station 環狀線 頭前庄 = 幸福站
Xinzhuang District, New Taipei City 新北市新莊區
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Platform doors of line 4. Métro line 4 is now being retrofitted for full automation, with completion expected in the year 2022.
The line is being converted to an automated system (like Line 1), with completion initially expected by 2019. The initial plans were to begin conversion some time after the completion of the Line 1 conversion, but due to high costs those plans were put on hold. On 2 April 2013, the RATP confirmed that Line 4 would be fully automated, but stopped short of giving a timeline of the conversion. In January 2016, Siemens was awarded a €70 million contract to fully automate Line 4. A mix of passenger and driverless trains will start in 2021 and the line will be fully driverless by 2022.
Although rolling stock for the automated line has not yet been confirmed, it is highly speculated that Line 4 will initially see a mix of MP 89CA and MP 05 stock from Line 14 running alongside new MP 14 railcars.
MÉTRO LINE 4
Porte de Clignancourt - Mairie de Montrouge
Total length : 12.1 km
Number of stations: 27
Date of opening: April 21st, 1908
Number of trains during rush hours: 44 (interval of 1m35)
Number of departures a day: 424
Traveltime: 30 minutes
Metro-Cammell Glasgow Subway Power Car No. 121 is seen here on the rear of an Outer Circle service just as it is leaving Buchannan Street Subway Station and disappearing into a tunnel, Powercars 128 and 119 made up the rest of that train.
These Metro-Cammell Subway Trains are due to be replaced over the coming years with brand new driverless subway trains.