Japan Might Have Driverless Bullet Trains By Mid-2030s
The Shinkansen’s maximum speed is 275 kilometres (170 miles) per hour (file). 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 Japan Railway (JR East) will first introduce trains where many of the driver’s…