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The Mcity Driverless Shuttle brings passengers from a distant lot at the North Campus Research Complex to the front of the complex at the University of Michigan. Photo by Roger Hart, Michigan Photography
Thursday, May 29th, 2014
The 2014 McKinsey Global Infrastructure Initiative
Rethinking Infrastructure
12:10-12:20
INSPIRING IDEAS: THE DRIVERLESS CITY
The increasing deployment of sensors and hand-held electronics is rapidly turning the vision of the driverless city into reality. Successfully deployed, the driverless city will transform transport infrastructure, congestion, and many other facets of urban living.
Speaker: Carlo Ratti, Director, Senseable City Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Photograph by McKinsey Global Infrastructure/Stuart Isett
"The Post Office Railway, known as Mail Rail since 1987, is a 2 ft (610 mm) narrow gauge, driverless underground railway in London that was built by the Post Office with assistance from the Underground Electric Railways Company of London, to move mail between sorting offices. Inspired by the Chicago Tunnel Company, it operated from 1927 until 2003.[2][3] A museum within the former railway was opened in September 2017.
"The line ran from Paddington Head District Sorting Office in the west to the Eastern Head District Sorting Office at Whitechapel in the east, a distance of 6.5 miles (10.5 km)."
Source: Wikipedia
System: Docklands Light Railway
Builder: Bombardier
Type: B90
Fleetnumber: 40
Location of Photo: Lewisham
Other Notes: N/A
Operated by: Beep Technologies
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A Beep pod seen turning around at LYNX Central while running the off-peak Swan Shuttle loop. This is a pilot project to trial an AV shuttle for additional service on part of the LYMMO Orange Line.
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System: Docklands Light Railway
Builder: Bombardier
Type: B92
Fleetnumber: 83
Location of Photo: Limehouse
Other Notes: N/A
Participants pictured in the How Close Is China's Driverless Tomorrow? session at the Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2024 in Dalian, People's Republic of China, 25 June 2024. Dalian International Conference Center - Hub F. Copyright: World Economic Forum/Ciaran McCrickard
Michigan Engineering graduate and undergraduate students help Xplore Engineering camp participants, (including Wendy Schmit, first right) learn how driverless cars use sensors, programming logic, and controls. Participants then program a semi-autonomous vehicle to race through a maze.
Photo by Marcin Szczepanski/Visual Communications Director, Michigan Engineering
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...
A driverless Docklands Light Railway train pauses at Stratford Station in east London during a journey to Woolwich Arsenal
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.
Chemin du But, October 25,, 2023
69230 Saint-Genis-Laval
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)