By TOSHINARI TAKAHASHI/ Staff Writer
November 17, 2021 at 18:40 JST
A driver is aboard an E7-series Shinkansen bullet train during a self-driving test run in Niigata on Nov. 17. (Toshinari Takahashi)
NIIGATA--Without a human driver at the controls, a Shinkansen bullet train began pulling out of the deadly quiet JR Niigata Station at 1:50 a.m. on Nov. 17 and soon reached a speed of 100 kph. [Read More]
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