Baku, Azerbaijan, Dec. 15
By Rufiz Hafizoglu – Trend:
The metro line, through which self-driving trains are running, opened for the first time in Istanbul, the Turkish media reported Dec. 15.
The length of that metro line is 10.5 kilometers. At the first stage, such trains will run on the line of the Istanbul subway, which has nine stations. During 2018, self-driving trains will gradually run on the whole Istanbul subway.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Prime Minister Binali Yildirim attended the opening ceremony of the "metro without a train driver".
At present, Istanbul’s metro consists of eight lines, six of which are in the European part of the city. There are about 70 stations in Istanbul metro, the length of its lines is 122 kilometers.
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