Germany Unveils First Self-driving Train. Here’s A Video Of A Self Driving Car In The US As Nigerian Terrorists Blow Rail Tracks Up
The Oasis Reporters
October 22, 2021
Theres also a freight train. It is also driverless.
German rail operator Deutsche Bahn and industrial group Siemens last week unveiled the world’s first automated, driverless train in the city of Hamburg, billing it as more punctual and energy efficient than traditional trains.
Four such trains will join the northern city’s S-Bahn rapid urban rail network and start carrying passengers from December, using the existing rail infrastructure.
Other cities like Paris have driverless metros while airports often have automated monorail trains plying terminals, but those run on exclusive single tracks while the Hamburg train will be sharing tracks with other regular trains.
The project, which Siemens and Deutsche Bahn called a “world first”, is part of a 60 million euro ($70 million) modernisation of Hamburg’s rapid urban rail system.
Baidu intends to hit the road with self-driving buses soon.
Nigeria may not be overtly enthusiastic about high-tech vehicles because their economy is highly reliant on an oil sector that it’s government likes to pretend may last forever. This is why they do not challenge their intellect to think outside the box.
As a country literally floating on 206.53 trillion standard cubic feet proven gas reserves or deposits as at June 2021, Nigerians desperately watch gas prices spiral out of control. Even resorting to firewood for cooking as their ancestors did is proving unreachable. The government continues to look helplessly as it has always done in the face of annual petrol shortages due to mind boggling corruption and distressing inefficiency.
Currently, Nigeria’s overpampered Fulani herdsmen militia who run about 90% kidnap gangsterism unchecked, have recently upped the ante by blowing up rail tracks because commuters have abandoned the kidnapping infested roads to start traveling by trains. Nigeria’s one time Kaduna north Senator, Shehu Sani almost got killed when the Abuja-Kaduna train he was traveling on stopped short of skidding off a damaged portion of the rail track.
Meanwhile, Deutsche Bahn CEO Richard Lutz said automated trains offer “a more reliable” service “without having to lay a single kilometre of new track”.
“We are making rail transport more intelligent,” said Siemens CEO Roland Busch, estimating that automated trains can transport “up to 30 percent more passengers, significantly improve punctuality and save more than 30 percent energy”.
Although the train is controlled through digital technology and fully automated, a driver will still be present to supervise journeys whenever there are passengers on board, the companies said in a statement.
Greg Abolo
Eben Ozor
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