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Take the driverless electric car pods out to this sushi and Japanese restaurant in the desert.
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The Hong Kong International Airport Automated People Mover is driverless train that operates in the basement of Hong Kong International Airport, to ferry passengers between the main terminal and the boarding gates that are a looooong way away. You can read more about the system on my blog:
www.checkerboardhill.com/2011/02/hong-hong-airport-driver...
Two new metro stations opened to the public on October 20, 2023, extending the metro line B to Oullins-Centre and Saint-Genis-Laval Hôpital Lyon-Sud, Lyon, France. The metro line B is now fully operated driverless with brand-new Alstom metro cars.
I paid a visit to theses new metro station with my French FOCA camera PF2B (year 1948). For the photo session, I equipped my Foca a normal lens Oplar 1:3.5 f=5cm lens. This lens, with the serial number beginning by 032, was manufactured in 1947 by the Optique & Précision de Levallois (OPL) French company, most likely in its factory of Châteaudun, Eure, France. The lens was also equipped withe with a generic 36mm push-on AUV filter a metal shade-hood.
I used also a special FOCA ever-ready bag made of a mix of strong military fabric and brown leather. This type of FOCA bag appeared as soon as 1945 and was price listed until 1954 but less popular and te other full leather bags. Exemplary in good shape is a rarity. The lens cap used here is a modern plastic 36mm lens cap Heliopan, Germany.
Due to a rather "foggy" finder, I used the Foca multi-focal external finder for the 50mm lense. The focus is almost impossible to evaluate using the internal range-finder that is, however, well operating. When necessary (distances bellow ca 5-6m), exact distances were measured using a LASER meter and reporting the value found to the lens distance scale.
The Foca camera was loaded with an Ilford HP5+ 36-exposure film. It was exposed for 400 ISO using an Autometer III Minolta lightmeter fitted with a 10° finder for selective measurements privileging the shadow areas.
Preparing the FOCA camera for action in its new battle-fileld bag, October 25,, 2023
69004 Lyon
France
After exposure, the film was developed using Adox Adonal (Agfa Rodinal). I wanted to develop the film at dilution 1+25 for 6min at 20°C to get a bit more of contrast but I was distracted and I prepared wrongly by routine a 1+50 that would have required 11min, resulting of an incomplete development and a quite pale negative. I realized my mistake while considering the film before complete wash.
I thought first that the film will be not usable and I was ready to return on the site for a second session. However, when digitalized it was possible to obtain acceptable positives views. Digitization was done using a Sony A7 body (24MP) fitted to a Minolta Slide Duplicator installed on a Minolta Auto Bellows III with a lens Minolta Bellow Macro Rokkor 50mm f/3.5. The RAW files obtained were processed without intermediate files in LR and edited to the final jpeg pictures.
All views of the film are presented in the dedicated album either in the printed framed versions and unframed full-size jpeg accompanied by some documentary smartphone Vivio Y76 color pictures.
About the camera :
This Foca PF2B is an early series (model-3 version-5 circa 1948) of the Foca PF2B 35mm French range-finder camera released in 1945. The PF2B model of Foca has the 36mm screw mount of all other Foca PF (PF standing for "Petit Format"). Foca camera's were constructed in France by the company "Optique & Precision de Levallois" (OPL) in the OPL factory of Chateaudun (Eure) starting from 1946. This factory still exists under the name of SAFRAN a French company producing aerospace devices and systems. This model of PF2B was originally without flash synchronisation. This one has been probably modified after sale with the double synchro X and FP that are still operating correctly (X synchro at 1/25s)
Delegates at International Railway Summit 2015 take a ride on the latest driverless L9 metro train in Barcelona, Spain on 18 February 2015.
© 2015 IRITS Events Ltd. Photo: Richard Hadley
Metroselskabet I/S: the train number 24 of the driverless København metro pauses in the Øresund station, which is equipped with platform screen doors.
System: Docklands Light Railway
Builder: Bombardier
Type: B90
Fleetnumber: 33
Location of Photo: Limehouse
Other Notes: N/A
Isolated section of Viaduct north of Caddies Creek, but south of the Windsor Rd / OWR intersection. Constructed by traditional crane. (in background)
Looking in a westerly direction towards Old Windsor Rd. The viaduct has crossed SRD & is steadily creeping northwards.
The Hong Kong International Airport Automated People Mover is driverless train that operates in the basement of Hong Kong International Airport, to ferry passengers between the main terminal and the boarding gates that are a looooong way away. You can read more about the system on my blog:
www.checkerboardhill.com/2011/02/hong-hong-airport-driver...
Detroit MI
The People Mover is an automated, driverless elevated rail transit system that runs in a small one-way loop downtown. The total track length is under 3 miles.
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 pulling into an underground station.
The driverless metro is under construction and it will offer a great view over the city. All the lines are over the ground and here you can see a metro station in the background. (Dubai, UAE)
Kind of a grungy blowup after I caught this one stopped for a traffic cop. The right-hand drive makes the car look driverless in this shot.
The Hong Kong International Airport Automated People Mover is driverless train that operates in the basement of Hong Kong International Airport, to ferry passengers between the main terminal and the boarding gates that are a looooong way away. You can read more about the system on my blog:
www.checkerboardhill.com/2011/02/hong-hong-airport-driver...