Worlds 1st Dual-Mode Vehicle Introduced In Japan
Highlights:
- Recently, Japan has introduced the world's first dual-mode vehicle (DMV), which looks like a minibus.
- On the road, the vehicle can run on regular rubber tires, but when it hits the rail tracks, the steel wheels in the vehicle's underbelly descend.
- The DMV can transport up to 21 passengers and travels at a top speed of 60 kilometers per hour on rail tracks and around 100 kilometers per hour on public roads.
- To propel the DMV onto the railway, the front tires are lifted off the track and the rear wheels remain down.
- This is the first feature of its kind: the ability to quickly transform into a train-like module on a rail track.
- The small fleet of diesel-powered vehicles comes in a variety of colors.
- It runs along part of Shikoku Island's coast in southern Japan, connecting several small towns and providing passengers with beautiful seaside scenery.
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