The dual-mode vehicle looks like a minibus and runs on normal rubber tires on the road. But when it arrives at an interchange, steel wheels descend from the vehicle’s underbelly onto the rail track, effectively turning it into a train carriage. Its road and railway modes can be switched in only about 15 seconds. The train wheels lift the front tires off the track while the rear wheels stay down to propel the DMV onto the railway. The front tires are lifted off the track and the rear wheels stay down to propel the DMV onto the railway. This feature of effectively changing into a train-like module easily on a rail track is the first of its kind.
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