China Railway Corporation, the country’s national railway operator, said it will renew its focus on promoting intelligent high-speed railway this year, Yicai.com reported.
Lu Dongfu, general manager of the corporation, said in order to realize new breakthroughs in smart high-speed railway transportation, comprehensive testing of key technologies, including autonomous control, self-driving, mobile communications and smart substations, will be launched in the year ahead.
Sun Zhang, a professor at the Railway and Urban Rail Transit Research Institute at Tongji University, said intelligent high-speed railways are an inevitable choice to further guarantee safety, enhance speed and efficiency and reduce costs.
The 300 to 350 kilometer per hour high-speed rail self-driving technology will likely be introduced on the Beijing-Zhangjiakou line for the first time, Sun added.
Click bait journalism, in its technological ignorance, treats autonomously operated vehicles, as though the idea is new.
Far far from it, autonomous vehicles have always been an important target.
Why is the automobile called the automobile? Because it is self driving for its motive force.
Trains, and boats and planes technologies have striven hard to achieve a level of autonomy.
Cruise control, auto pilot and a huge array of warning sensors are all part of this.
But nevertheless, when lives are at stake, their must be a human overseer, as technologies always have an element of failure.