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The Dubai Metro (in Arabic: مترو دبي) is a driverless, fully automated metro network in the United Arab Emirates city of Dubai. The Red Line is almost fully operational, the Green Line is under construction with trials commenced in October 2010, and 3 further lines are planned, with some doubt expressed on their feasibility following the financial downturn experienced by Dubai after September 2008. These first two lines run underground in the city centre and on elevated viaducts elsewhere.[2] All trains and stations are air conditioned with platform edge doors to make this possible.
The first section of the Red Line, covering 10 stations, was ceremonially inaugurated at 9:09:09 PM on September 9, 2009, by Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Ruler of Dubai,[3] with the line opening to the public at 6 AM on September 10.[4] The Dubai Metro is the first urban train network in the Arabian Peninsula.[5] More than 110,000 people, which is nearly 10 per cent of Dubai’s population, used the Metro in its first two days of operation.[6] The Dubai Metro carried 10 million passengers from launch on 9 September 2009 to 9 February 2010 with 11 stations operational on the Red Line.[7]
Once the 20 km Green line opens, the Dubai Metro will overtake the title of longest fully automated metro network from the Vancouver Skytrain, surpassing it by 1 km.
Google’s Sebastian Thrun would like to put an end to humans driving cars on public roadways.
Instead, the car just drives itself, day and night. Some lucky Google engineers are chauffeured to work each day around Silicon Valley in these cars, crossing bridges, toll booths and pedestrian crosswalks.
Here are photos and video of my high speed ride in a Google robocar — the ultimate driving machine.
Quotes from Thrun’s TED Talk, which just went live:
“We have driven 140,000 miles and people didn’t even notice.”
“Driving accidents are the number one cause of death for young people, and almost all of those are due to human error, not machine error, that could be definitely be prevented by machine.”
“We could change the capacity of highways by a factor or 2 or 3 if we didn’t rely on human precision to stay in the lanes, but on robotic precision… and do away with all traffic jams on highways.”
“You spend an average of 52 minutes per day in traffic wasting your time on your daily commute. There are 4 billion hours wasted in this country alone, and 2.4B gallons of gasoline wasted.”
“I am looking forward to a time when generations after look back at us and say how ridiculous it was that humans were driving cars.”
Not sure if you can trust driverless cars to stay on the road yet. :-)
Ok, something different. :-) Noticed some guys running their remote control 4WD cars through rocks near at creek a the park. Surprised how easily they traversed the big rocks, had to grab a few photos from a distance.
Turin has a driverless metro system based on the VAL system. The rubber-tyred metro trains of the Véhicule Automatique Léger series were first used in Lille.
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.
A southbound Red Line speeds away from my lens at Dubai's Marina station. This six year old system is the largest driverless metro in the world, and is slated to grow to 262 miles serving 197 stations by 2030.
I found it ironic that a country famous for its oil reserves would produce such a drool-worthy metro. Riders can expect gleaming stations, spotless bathrooms, and stunning views of the Dubai skyline ... with one Achilles heel: the metro is often jammed, even with six minute headways.
Appearing almost driverless! Merseyrail's class 508 143 from 1980 approaches the 1984 built station at Bache with a service on the loop Liverpool Lime St to Chester. Luv those horns on these units. Sept 26th 2014
difficult-to-love ørestad, shot through the window of the almost symbolically driverless train. all the copenhagen architects are lined up along the track with nothing to connect this beastiary of contemporary boxes but the arteries of infrastructure. no ideas, no ideals, no dreams, no spaces shaped according to man.
166/365 - June 15, 2011
Ok...it's not a Disney Monorail, but it is the entrance to a Monorail, so I'm hoping the MM judges will let this one slide.
As you can see this is a moving sidewalk entrance to the Las Vegas Strip Monorail at Bally's. Neon is the order of the day (or actually night) in Vegas. So, of course the side walk has neon.
Update: After some research it appears these monorails are the same monorail as used in WDW with the exception they are driverless. The nose is a bit different design, but they both use Mark VI monorails. Thank you Ryan, Joe and Don for your knowledge.
Metro Taipei Circular Line Driverless 117
台北捷運環狀線電聯車 117
Circular Line Jingan Station 環狀線 景安站
Zhonghe District, New Taipei City 新北市中和區
Waratah A77 arrives into Chatswood platform 3 with a Hornsby via Macquarie Park (the ECRL) service.
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
It’s 3 in the morning.
My mind is restless, my legs are jealous.
Separated from the hustle and bustle of rowdy downtown streets, the silence wants to commit suicide. Through the window, I survey the streets. Driverless cars and streetlights with no paths to light. I am alone, despite my proximity to human bodies long asleep. A prisoner in this house, in my doubts and worries and frustrations and insecurities, at least until morning.
I take a step closer to the window and an image forms. It is dim, but it screams out at me. It is always there, but often overlooked. It is me, or a version of me: an unfixed photograph, ready to fade when the lights come on. It is born by the light and it will die by it.
Not if I can help it.
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.
The driverless, fully automated metro rail network in the United Arab Emirates city of Dubai is in itself a tourist attraction. This is the world's longest fully automated metro network spanning 75 kilometres and all stations like the Ibn Battuta Mall station pictured here, are fully air conditioned with platform edge doors to make this possible. There are four themes used in the interiors of the stations: earth, water, fire and air. Earth stations have a tan-brown colour effects; water has blue-white colour effects; fire has orange-red colour effects; and the air has green colour effects. Japanese manufacturer Kinki Sharyo built a total of 87 five-car trains for the metro. They are designed to carry 643 seated and standing passengers. It was fun standing at the front of the moving train jostling with fellow tourists trying to shoot videos.
all Docklands Light railway trains are driverless. This means that, if you are lucky, you can sit right at the front (or the back) and get a great view of the tracks.It is amazing how much the trains snake and duck and weave along the the route. The trains are incredibly flexible. There are very few straight bits!
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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Learn more about this pilot project here: www.nps.gov/yell/learn/management/automated-shuttle-pilot...
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I treni della metro di Torino sono driverless, dunque è possibile sedersi proprio in punta al vagone e scattare in completa comodità. Figata.
Ho fatto qualche scatto di prova, cercando di catturare un po' di mosso e qualche scia, ma niente di soddisfacente. Poi, smanettando con diaframmi e tempi mi sono trovato questi scatti. Ampiamente sovraesposti rispetto alla luce ambiente disponibile, mi hanno colpito subito per la ricchezza e la forza dei dettagli.
E mi è balzata in mente una parola: Morlock!
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Trains in the Turin metro are driverless. So you can confortably seat and take a lot of photos. That's too cool!
I was playing with apertures and shutter speed when I shot this serie of pictures. They are clearly overexposed, but so rich in details. And suddenly a namen came to my mind. Morlock! Do you remember?
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Announced on the 162nd anniversary of the first train to run in New South Wales on 26 September 1855.
Publicity photograph of the NSW Minister for Transport and Infrastrucure, Hon Andrew Constance announcing the delivery of Sydney's first driverless Metro train on 26 September 2017.
From Sydney Metro's website:
"Sydney’s first metro train has arrived and is getting ready to hit the tracks and revolutionise public transport in Australia.
The six carriages of the first metro train have arrived at the Sydney Metro Trains Facility at Rouse Hill and will be prepared for testing over the coming months.
In two years, people living in the North West will get a train every four minutes in the peak in each direction, a level of service never before see in Australia.
Services will extend into the CBD by 2024. Sydney Metro will have an ultimate capacity of a metro train every two minutes in each direction under the city.
The $8.3 billion Sydney Metro Northwest project is Stage 1 of Sydney Metro, which will be the first fully-automated metro rail system in Australia.
Sydney Metro Northwest includes eight new metro stations, five existing stations upgraded to metro standards and 4,000 new commuter car parking spaces."
Picture: Transport for NSW, Sydney Metro, publicity.
This picture shows one of the great metro station of the Dubai green metro line
Architects: Aedas
This picture was fine tuned by my Friend Emil Borsting on Light room
you can find his photostream here www.flickr.com/photos/67632770@N08/
Questa è l'ultima della serie. Giuro! :-)
I treni della metro di Torino sono driverless, dunque è possibile sedersi proprio in punta al vagone e scattare in completa comodità. Figata.
Ho fatto qualche scatto di prova, cercando di catturare un po' di mosso e qualche scia, ma niente di soddisfacente. Poi, smanettando con diaframmi e tempi mi sono trovato questi scatti. Ampiamente sovraesposti rispetto alla luce ambiente disponibile, mi hanno colpito subito per la ricchezza e la forza dei dettagli.
E mi è balzata in mente una parola: Morlock!
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Trains in the Turin metro are driverless. So you can confortably seat and take a lot of photos. That's too cool!
I was playing with apertures and shutter speed when I shot this serie of pictures. They are clearly overexposed, but so rich in details. And suddenly a namen came to my mind. Morlock! Do you remember?
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I'm also on:
TWITTER / Getty Images / 500px / Google Earth / Sreamzoo / Instagram/ Meetup
____________________________________________________
And now also on FACEBOOK
Jersey Bus Tours 1977 Bristol LH at lights on Victoria Avenue, its driver hopped out of the cab to pick up something by the door. 06/09/14
Sadly even the posters from the people trying to save it have faded.
Like many theatres it was closed as a theatre many years ago and became a Bingo hall. After it closed as a Bingo Hall in 2009 it has remained empty and was purchased by Dudley Council for demolish.
Then a group of volunteers got together to save it, they negotiated a 5 year lease from the council to try and save it. Then they were banned by the council from going inside on safety grounds (asbestos). It appears now that it will be demolished for a driverless car testing centre.
Sometimes referred to a London's secret railway, The Mail Rail was an underground rail line designed to bypass London traffic. Opened in 1927 the driverless trains efficiently transported mail below the busy streets between multiple stations, until 2003, when demand had been dropping due to technological advances such as e-mail and cost issues.
The tunnels and stations can now be visited by members of the public. Even though the tunnels and trains are way smaller than the well known underground system it is such an adventure, albeit quite a tight fit into the carriages! There is a postal museum over the road too with a great exhibition on mail delivery through the years.
You will need to book a ticket for the train ride. More information available here:
You always have to watch out for yellow line morons and people who think they second as door wedges.
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I have been a bit remiss about uploading this set of photos. They are images I've captured myself, and turned from still driverless cars, into action induced comic scenes. The general inspiration was my enjoyment of Initial D, the anime series. They bare resemblance to the manga of the series aswell. I'd love to start doing more, for each of my photoshoots. Let me know what you think of them, and if I should continue. Please share them if you like them! Thank you!
Nuremberg U-Bahn Siemens Class DT3 driverless EMU 706 at Friedrich-Ebert-Platz on a line U3 service to Gustav-Adolf-Strasse.
14th April 2016
Une rame Alstom en test sur la ligne M2 quelques mois avant son ouverture.
A gauche, la future route de contournement de la Sallaz.
Montreal is hosting a 'Global Public Transport Summit' today and tomorrow and a number of vehicles are on display. Here an 'easy mile' driverless vehicle by Transdev circles the block
Participants attending the Session "Shifting Gears to Driverless" at the Annual Meeting 2017 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 20, 2017
Copyright by World Economic Forum / Mattias Nutt
It's quite an experience riding in these cars on the restored section of Mail Rail, the old Post Office railway under London. Most of it is through an 8' bore tube, so those curved covers are locked down over you and you're sitting with your knees under your chin the whole time. These have got to be the smallest passenger-carrying tube trains ever, and not for the claustrophobic, but it's good fun and really fascinating!
It was built as an automated system with driverless trains operating on the 3rd rail system to carry mail between London's major sorting offices and railway termini. Rendered obsolete by new communications technology, parts of it have now been restored as a tourist attraction, with trains operating on battery power for a 17 minute ride - or more if the train comes to a stop because a passenger has leaned against the cover and triggered the safety cut out! (It wasn't me, honest!)
Sometimes referred to a London's secret railway, The Mail Rail was an underground rail line designed to bypass London traffic. Opened in 1927 the driverless trains efficiently transported mail below the busy streets between multiple stations, until 2003, when demand had been dropping due to technological advances such as e-mail and cost issues.
The tunnels and stations can now be visited by members of the public. Even though the tunnels and trains are way smaller than the well known underground system it is such an adventure, albeit quite a tight fit into the carriages! There is a postal museum over the road too with a great exhibition on mail delivery through the years.
You will need to book a ticket for the train ride. More information available here:
Taken with my digital Fujifilm X20
Turin has a driverless metro system based on the VAL system. This is a work of art in the Lingotto station depicting the area of the former Fiat factory and its cars. It was designed by Ugo Nespolo.
Mapping Machine Uncertainty and The Crossing from the Manœuvres series | Cartographie de l’incertitude machine et La Traversée de la série Manœuvres
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.