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Métro 4 Château Rouge 18/12/2018 19h46
The station Château Rouge is being prepared as on of the first stations of métro line 4. Platform doors are being installed for full automatic operation. The line is being converted to an automated system (like Line 14 and 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 April 2, 2013, the RATP confirmed that Line 4 would be fully automated, but stopped short of giving a timeline of the conversion.[16] In January 2016, Siemens was awarded a €70 million contract to fully automate Line 4. A mix of passenger and driverless trains will commence in 2020 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
Alan Murray, Chief Content Officer, Time, USA.Violeta Bulc, Commissioner, Transport, European Commission, Brussels.Carlos Ghosn, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Renault-Nissan Alliance, France.Paul E. Jacobs, Executive Chairman, Qualcomm, USA.Wendell Wallach, Scholar, Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, Yale University, USA.speaking during the Session "Shifting Gears to Driverless" at the Annual Meeting 2017 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 20, 2017
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A major review has confirmed the UK is uniquely positioned to develop driverless car technology.
Up to now, the scope for testing driverless cars has been limited, but industry has been given the green light for testing on public roads.
The UK’s regulatory environment now sets it apart as a premium location for developing new technology, with tremendous potential for reducing accidents and making traffic flow more smoothly.
See press release for further information.
Join in the Twitter conversation at #driverlesscars #BusinessisGreat
This was taken from the front of the driverless MRT train running the Northeast line in Singapore. The day after this photo was taken, the lights were shut off to save power, making this photo a unique one-of-a-kind shot of a subway train zooming through its tunnel.
A major review has confirmed the UK is uniquely positioned to develop driverless car technology.
Up to now, the scope for testing driverless cars has been limited, but industry has been given the green light for testing on public roads.
The UK’s regulatory environment now sets it apart as a premium location for developing new technology, with tremendous potential for reducing accidents and making traffic flow more smoothly.
See press release for further information.
Join in the Twitter conversation at #driverlesscars #BusinessisGreat
(4) Bagneux Lucie Aubrac 25/02/2022 08h23
Two more stations added to métro line 4 since 13/01/2022.
Before the fully automated driverless metros arrive on métro line 4 the line has being extened in the South to Bagneux - Lucie Aubrac.
In 2013, Line 4 was extended for the first time since its initial construction, into the southern suburbs of Montrouge. The line was further extended to Bagneux–Lucie Aubrac in on 13/01/2022 (the day after I took this picture), connecting to the future Grand Paris Express. The line is now being retrofitted for full automation, with the first automated trains expected to run by mid-2022.
It is the second-busiest Métro line after Line 1, carrying over 154 million passengers in 2004.
MÉTRO LINE 4
Porte de Clignancourt - Bagneux-Lucie Aubrac
Total length : 13.9 km
Number of stations: 29
Date of opening: April 21st, 1908
Number of trains during rush hours: 44 (interval of 1m35)
Number of departures a day: 424
Traveltime: 36 minutes
Ridership: 158,5 million (2019)
Stock:MP 89 CC (*mid 2022: MP 89 CA - MP 05 - MP 14)
[ Wikipedia - Métro Paris Ligne 4 (français) 02/2022 ]
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.
At the Dalida restaurant with Eugene Marngoni. I liked the driverless Jaguar cars provided by Waymo. We can choose music to play during the ride & temperature.
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.
Driverless cars, working alongside robots and living under a protective dome — these could all be part of Singapore’s future if our economy continues to thrive. In this Straits Times article, SMU School of Economics Associate Dean (Faculty, Research) and Professor of Economics Hoon Hian Teck shares how Singapore can continue to stay relevant and fuel further growth to realise this utopian dream. — bit.ly/1Vkj8b4
Case IH Trident 5550 applicator with Raven Autonomy technology, the agriculture industry’s first autonomous spreader showcases autonomous agricultural solutions at the Farm Progress show in Boone, IA, on August 31, 2022.
To address human and economic resource shortages, they are utilizing autonomy, wireless connectivity, sub-inch GPS accuracy, sensor technology, data-based information, control and guidance systems, and more to make existing farm tractors with grain carts more efficient. Here, farm equipment has been retrofitted to add autonomous control from a smart tablet. With a single button push, tractors pulling grain carts can be summoned into precise alignment and movement next to a moving harvester to increase safety and efficiency and reduce spillage. Autonomous equipment, equipped with sensors, cameras, and specialized controls, can operate in a field where other operators work and recognize fields not yet harvested and harvested. The black OMNiPOWER 3200 is an autonomous driverless cab-less applicator spreader, 120-food boom sprayer, and air seeder programed or controlled by a smart tablet. Its safety systems allow it to work in occupied fields. The four-wheel hydraulic drive and steer systems can utilize front, rear, or four-wheel steering to turn on a dime. USDA media by Lance Cheung.
Metro Taipei Circular Line Driverless 103
臺北捷運環狀線電聯車 103
Circular Line Banqiao = Banxin Minsheng Station 環狀線 板橋 = 板新站
Banqiao District, New Taipei City 新北市板橋區
Kralingse Zoom 14-02-2018. The ParkShuttle is an electronically guided driverless vehicle that runs on a buslane between Kralingse Zoom bus and metro station in Rotterdam, and the Rivium in Capelle aan den IJssel. The vehicles are operated by Connexxion, may carry 20 passengers and are built by Spijkstaal.
Bus 5 on the turning circle at the Kralingse Zoom terminus.
These modern trams or should I call it light rail have been around in Britain for a few years now yet I still find them slightly exotic. I can see them becoming more widespread in the coming years as the advent of the driverless car will also herald the driverless tram and just like buses of old they might well come along in threes.
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.
From the keynote Google Self-Driving Car Project:
Everyone's talking about self-driving cars these days, but how can you differentiate between hype and reality? In the six years of Google’s project, its vehicles have self-driven over 1.3 million miles, racking up the equivalent of 90 years of human driving experience. Google says its cars can now handle the vast majority of everyday situations it finds on the roads, but what does the path to a driverless future look like? How could it be that self-driving cars be both three and 30 years away?
Urmson shares his stories from the front lines of building the world's first fully self-driving cars.
Photo: Ståle Grut / NRKbeta
Late afternoon sun shines on maximum telephoto shot of a Metro set on the viaduct heading for Chatswood. (eventually)
Two quotes: " FUTURE TENSE THE CITIZEN’S GUIDE TO THE FUTURE.JUNE 22 2016 9:45 AM FROM SLATE, NEW AMERICA, AND ASU The Self-Driving Car Generation Gap 22 22 54 Older people see driving as representing freedom. By Brad Allenby Older Driver. Will driverless cars one day help persuade the elderly to hand over their keys? Photobac/Thinkstock. FT_futurography-logo On Jan. 22, 1984, one of the most famous advertisements in American history debuted during Super Bowl XVIII, the one and only time it appeared on nationwide television. Advertising the Apple Macintosh personal computer, it showed a single brave heroine outrunning the thought police to destroy ideology, conformity, and totalitarianism, and ended with the tag line “On January 24th, Apple Computer will introduce Macintosh. And you’ll see why 1984 won’t be like 1984.” It did a lot of things. It gave the Apple brand an individualistic, somewhat countercultural, flavor, which the firm retains even today, when it is one of the behemoths of the global economy. More importantly, perhaps, it provides an insight into technology systems that tells us a lot about autonomous vehicles and their likely routes of acceptance into mainstream culture. To understand this, consider another advertisement: the Dodge Challenger George Washington masterpiece, which aired in 2010 during the World Cup. This is not as subtle as Apple’s, which, after all, assumes a certain political sophistication and familiarity with literature (George Orwell’s 1984). Rather, it depicts George Washington driving a car that routs the British redcoats (maybe in Oregon? Really?), but it ends with a tagline that doesn’t even have to mention the car: “Here’s a couple of things America got right: cars and freedom.” In fact, when my undergraduate students watch it, they have a pretty dissonant response: They find it incredibly hokey and cheesy ... but they also admit that it really is emotionally effective." -&- "But here the operative phrase is “used to be.” Research shows that fewer and fewer millennials are getting driving licenses. A University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute study, for example, showed that there was a continuous decrease in the percentage of people with driver’s licenses among 16- through 44-year-olds and that the percent of people not having driver’s licenses in the lowest age group was increasing over time."
Image taken by Fellow driver Mick.
This was the loco that ran away driverless during final track lifting duties at Pelton on the former Consett branch. It collided with 37072 at Tyne Yard .
In the years 1985-1987 I was second man to the driver who was held responsible for this non injury incident.
The People Mover tracks at Marittima. It is a driverless tram system that connects the Piazzale Roma with the Marittima cruise terminal and the Tronchetto parking garage.
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Kralingse Zoom 14-02-2018. The ParkShuttle is an electronically guided driverless vehicle that runs on a buslane between Kralingse Zoom bus and metro station in Rotterdam, and the Rivium in Capelle aan den IJssel. The vehicles are operated by Connexxion, may carry 20 passengers and are built by Spijkstaal.
Bus number 4 on the special bus lane, going in the direction of Kralingse Zoom.
The driverless automated shuttle opened in 1987, along with the North Terminal, and initially used Adtranz C-100 people-mover cars (One seen here during delivery) which remained in operation until September 2009, by which time they had travelled a total of 2.5 million miles .
A36 pulls into Platform 6 at Epping with a Hornsby bound Sydney Trains service from the City via the North Shore and ECRL.
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
The once imagined Cravings Cafe Demo from years ago (2007). Love the driverless old truck, the invisible cash register, and the big-booty triplets as the employees (imported from Poser as .obj files).
POV-Ray is able to render frame-by-frame a user defined camera path through space producing .bmp images. I had a handy little app that would convert the resulting set of images and combine them into a video of most any format.
I hope these Waymo driverless cars can read ALL the signs. This one navigated the Wrong Way signs without an issue. Still amazes me they can go pick someone up and take them to a predetermined destination all without a driver. All you need is the Waymo app, And… live in Phoenix, Los Angeles, San Francisco, or Austin Texas.
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 driverless metro on the M1 line arrives at DR Byen station. The metro runs 24/7, with two to six minute headways most operating hours. The current 22 station system will grow by another 17 stations in 2018, when the circular 'Cityringen' line is added.
Copenhagen struck me as even more of a straphanger's Shangri-La than Zurich. A soccer mom might regret the loss of a private car while smushed into a Seoul or Tokyo subway, but would lose precious little by going car free in either of these European cities.
A major review has confirmed the UK is uniquely positioned to develop driverless car technology.
Up to now, the scope for testing driverless cars has been limited, but industry has been given the green light for testing on public roads.
The UK’s regulatory environment now sets it apart as a premium location for developing new technology, with tremendous potential for reducing accidents and making traffic flow more smoothly.
See press release for further information.
Join in the Twitter conversation at #driverlesscars #BusinessisGreat
Driverless Vehicle (with a driver) - I saw three of these today in Tempe. I understand Uber is sending them to pickup select customers on a trial basis. All three cars were on Mill Avenue in Tempe. Pretty amazing they can navigate streets better than many real drivers. Distracted driving is taken off the table.