https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdOll-1TerI

TokyoIt's a bus, it's a train, it's a DMV! The world's first dual-mode vehicle, equally at home on road and rail, is set to make its public debut on Saturday in the town of Kaiyo in Japan's Tokushima prefecture.

The DMV looks like a minibus and runs on normal rubber tires on the road. But when it arrives at an interchange, steel wheels descend from the vehicle's underbelly onto the rail track, effectively turning it into a train carriage.

The train wheels lift the front tires off the track while the rear wheels stay down to propel the DMV onto the railway.

The CEO of Asa Coast Railway company, which operates the DMVs, said the vehicles could help small towns like Kaiyo with an aging and shrinking population, where local transport companies struggle to make a profit.

"This (DMV) can reach the locals (as a bus), and carry them onto the railway as well," CEO Shigeki Miura told Reuters on Friday. "Especially in rural areas with an aging population, we expect it to be a very good form of public transport."

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The DMV can carry up to 21 passengers and runs at a speed of 60km/h (37 mph) on rail tracks and can go as fast as around 100km/h (62 mph) on public roads, Asa Coast Railway said.

Powered by diesel fuel, the small fleet of vehicles, which come in different colors, will run along part of the coast of Shikoku island in southern Japan, connecting several small towns and offering passengers attractive seaside scenery.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/24/business/dual-mode-vehicle-japan/index.html

Meanwhile we are still battling with bad roads....

Lalasticlala
Cc Mynd44
Seun

Supremely great!
Vehicle to run on road and rail, Japan's sense of technology is nothing but OUTRAGEOUS!

Meanwhile in one country only God knows how I happen to find myself in, State governments use sawdust and granite to construct roads for the sole purpose of embezzling more five years later when the project is re-awarded.

smartasuen:
Supremely great!
Vehicle to run on road and rail, Japan's sense of technology is nothing but OUTRAGEOUS!

Meanwhile in one country only God knows how I happen to find myself in, State governments use sawdust and granite to construct roads for the sole purpose of embezzling more five years later when the project is re-awarded.

Japan is quietly leaving everybody behind technologically.....

Japan using technology to positively enhance human lives. Russia on the other hand is trying to use technology to destroy the world. Kudos to Japan

Africans will never think of doing something as great as this.. that is why Africa is in the poor state it is today.

All we know is consumption of white men and Asian people products.. no brain to do anything noteworthy or advance technologically.

No pictures

flokii:
Africans will never think of doing something as great as this.. that is why Africa is in the poor state it is today.

All we know is consumption of white men and Asian people products.. no brain to do anything noteworthy or advance technologically.

Politicians will be thinking of giving one satchel of omo, salt, rice and N500 as palliative.....Common railway coaches we can not build....

So frustrated yorubas and igbos will be insulting Nigeria



Whatever they build we can buy it...




Don't quote me

Japan is futuristic

zuchyblink:
Japan is futuristic

Very soon they will use water to power houses......Aku odun oo....

Nigerian government

Light years ahead...

We will get there soon but first this niggas in power have to go

Brains

Some countries don go far while some still dey debate cow routes..

Fun fact. Most African Countries first Japan et China get Train technology.. But today na them dey construct trains for us.

Saner climes

Slow and steady we will get there as a nation.

Yet most people born and raised in Nigeria have never seen light 247 in their lifes... Omo

I honestly don't even know what am still doing in this country

Not impressed

Omooba77:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdOll-1TerI



https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/24/business/dual-mode-vehicle-japan/index.html

Developed country
Not cow nation

Wow what a wonder. While some are still busy doing Allahu akbar some are busy progressing and advancing

They are on another level, level 2077

Nigeria is still at level 1965

Amazing! This was first invented by Americans but they couldn't develop it. They concentrated only on train aspect. Anyone who watches fox news advert where an ancient car was running on rail tracks would remember this.

Our leaders, if they truly want something good for Nigeria, would embrace restructuring else, we'd remain in same position for another 20 years . Amazingly, time flies like birds in the sky. When Abacha was shouting vishin 2020( i.e vision 2020) in those days, we thought 2020 was far reaching, as if it would never come. Our leaders lack sincerity of purpose at heart.

With restructuring, there would be no case of 2 civil servants owning over 300 houses in Nigeria when they're not dangote or estate developers. Dangote doesn't even own 50. If someone could say he owns only one house in lagos and one in abuja, you can imagine how many houses dangote owns altogether, in spite of his riches.

There would be no case of an ordinary accountant under the ministry of power to be owning 75 houses in choice locations in abuja and over 50 cars, and we'd expect stable electricity. Sadly , these guys are fulanis and nothing had been done to prosecute them. They only said 2 civil servants own over 300 houses but failed to parade them. Had they been southerners, their names would have made headlines with media trials for a year.

In the last 5 years, I can't point to one meaningful achievement of our government, no scientific discoveries in any area. The continuation of the rail projects they met which they're celebrating keeps gulping money like no man's business.

With restructuring, each region would harness her scarce resources for the betterment of their region and country Nigeria. Otherwise na like this we go dey dey oo. Enough said .

They call you Third World country,you too you are behaving as the name implies,oh my Africa!!!!


Kudos to the Japanese.

Japan, Qatar, Singapore infact the whole Asia are something else in technology