That's a car not a tram
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Mini bus, not a car
It's a cram.
It runs on rails, which is called a tram or streetcar
I don't see any rails in the image?
Top left, the rest are magnetic rails under the red line
magnetic rails
If it's not steel on steel it's not a tram.
Ok that's awesome. I didn't know something like that existed.
So, the tram has tyres? Like a bus?
Or is it maglev, which would be nice?
It probably just uses the magnetic "rail" to guide it on the road.
SoI I'm guessing it could be replaced by a 5$ GPS reciever
or like, the same fucking wires used for robot mowers
the magnets don't directly move the vehicle, the field it generates is just measured by the sensor on the car to be able to get reliably accurate position data iirc
gps definitely can't provide that level of accuracy reliably
I think it runs on a rail - my guess is the red line hides a track that the machine follows.
The red line is pavement. But it looks like there's a bit of very narrow gauge track that the car actually runs on to the left
This is a self driving tram provided by the Korean Railroad Research Institute to this research project. As so often, these “autonomous” vehicles merely follow a special trail that is embedded in the tarmac, often with an indicator colour on top. The rail-ish thing you mentioned is just too far away from the vehicle, and there’s only one.
So only one question remains: is it a car? Maybe.
isn't it the same thing as a car but it just uses magnets rather than paint for road markings
A neat little taxi, the fact that it's safe and quiet enough to go inside large buildings/complexes is also neat. Just confused why it's called a "mini-tram", considering that it doesn't even remotely fit the definition. I mean it's not like it'll ever fill the role of a tram in any capacity, it'll always just be a fancy private taxi for shortish distances.
Now imagine if we took this, made it longer and flexible to fit more people, put it on steel rails for less rolling resistance. I wonder how that would work out.
I think it might be autonomous. At least, it looks exactly like some driverless vehicles that are being tested in my city. They can't navigate just anywhere though. They use cameras to follow a prescribed route. My guess is that this one follows the painted red line and uses cameras for collision avoidance.
this one follows magnets embedded in the ground
It's not a tram, it's not the first ever vehicle to be able to move vertically with an elevator either. If any it resembles a car in a car elevator. It's something but it's definitely not a tram. Autonomous magnetically guided minibus.