{"id":99664,"date":"2019-12-12T08:23:54","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T16:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/chinas-driverless-trackless-train-that-runs-on-virtual-rails-launches-first-commercial-line"},"modified":"2019-12-12T08:23:54","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T16:23:54","slug":"chinas-driverless-trackless-train-that-runs-on-virtual-rails-launches-first-commercial-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/chinas-driverless-trackless-train-that-runs-on-virtual-rails-launches-first-commercial-line","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s driverless, trackless train that runs on virtual rails launches first commercial line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chinas-driverless-trackless-train-that-runs-on-virtual-rails-launches-first-commercial-line2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s ART has succeeded where its \u201cStraddling Bus\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/shanghaiist.com\/2016\/12\/05\/straddling_bus_abandoned\/\">could not<\/a>, launching for commercial use for the first time in the Sichuan city of Yibin.<\/p>\n<p>Dubbed the \u201cAutonomous Rail Rapid Transit,\u201d the ART is essentially a driverless tram that runs on \u201cvirtual rails\u201d mapped out by cameras and censors \u2014 so, it\u2019s kinda like a bus too.<\/p>\n<p>The Yibin ART T1 line extends for 17.7 kilometers. It\u2019s expected to serve more than 10,000 passengers daily, a number that will go up to 25,000 once the line is extended to a high-speed railway station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s ART has succeeded where its \u201cStraddling Bus\u201d could not, launching for commercial use for the first time in the Sichuan city of Yibin. Dubbed the \u201cAutonomous Rail Rapid Transit,\u201d the ART is essentially a driverless tram that runs on \u201cvirtual rails\u201d mapped out by cameras and censors \u2014 so, it\u2019s kinda like a bus [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}