China's Rubber Tyre Train

[burnthebox]

Hi don't know if this has been covered but if not it's worth looking at now, China's Rubber Tyred Train, on trial...

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/peoplesdaily/article-4565992/China-unveils-track-train-runs-virtual-rails.html

[Noel]

Hi don't know if this has been covered but if not it's worth looking at now, China's Rubber Tyred Train, on trial...

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/peoplesdaily/article-4565992/China-unveils-track-train-runs-virtual-rails.html

 

Hi Paul. Interesting, but is that not just a bus running on a dedicated bus lane? Specifically a bendy bus, which have been around for a while. Noel

[murrayec]

Hi Paul

 

We used to have them here, two coach, but they kept crashing into things and they removed them...

 

Eoin

[Tarabuses]

Hi Paul

 

We used to have them here, two coach, but they kept crashing into things and they removed them...

 

Eoin

 

Well, something like that!

[burnthebox]

Watch them running next year in China....& there're called Trains, watch this space..!!

[Broithe]

Do we need the driver? Couldn't we just bury a wire in the road and "Faller" the whole thing?

[jhb171achill]

A bendy-bus.

[Mayner]

Meanwhle in the UK the Department of Transport is planning to start trialing platoons of driverless trucks next year.

 

https://www.engadget.com/2017/08/25/uk-platooning-trials/

 

Potentially major threat to workers whoes livliehoods are dependent on the trucking industry

[DiveController]

I suppose it barely meets the definition of a train in the sense of a convoy, etc but generally a train is something that is hauled, propelled or self-propelled on a railway, that last part being conspicuously absent in this case.

Thinking about it, John's example probably meets the definition of a train, virtual rails and virtual couplings!

Edited September 5, 2017 by DiveController