India's first driverless train was flagged off by Union Minister
Union Urban Development Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday flagged off the trial run of a driverless Metro train here.
• The trial run started at the Mukundpur depot of Delhi Metro and ended at Majalis Park station on the Majlis Park-Shiv Vihar corridor of phase 3.
• The new train will undergo rigorous trials to ensure these are ready for smooth operations after the commissioning of the new corridors.
• Initially, train operators will run them for around a year before completely switching to unmanned train operations,
• Later, Naidu and Kejriwal stressed the need to improve public transport system to reduce air pollution in Delhi.
• Naidu said the Delhi government's odd-even traffic scheme was a temporary measure to reduce air pollution.
• The driverless train is manufactured at Changwon in South Korea. It arrived in India at the Mundra port in Gujarat and was brought by road to Delhi on specially-made trailers.