SHIZUOKA--Railway officials deemed a self-driving Shinkansen test as successful here, in a step toward having automated high-speed bullet trains debut in Japan in 2028. The driver pressed a button in ...
The Shinkansen's maximum speed is 275 kilometres (170 miles) per hour (file). Shinkansen bullet trains could be whizzing around Japan without drivers from the mid-2030s, one of its main rail operators ...
TOKYO – Shinkansen bullet trains could be whizzing around Japan without drivers from the mid-2030s, one of its main rail operators said, motivated in part by the country’s demographic crisis. East ...