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Driverless trains

The Copenhagen Metro runs driver-less trains, where passengers can sit at the very front. The driverless system means safety must be extra high.

Nordic vision
The Nordic Council Welfare Committee has decide to:
  • strive to reduce the suicide rate in the Nordic countries by 25% by 2025
  • strive to prevent all suicide by train by 2025
  • strive to prevent all suicide by certain vulnerable group

“We live in the happiest region in the world, and yet young people commit suicide and vulnerable people find life difficult. The Nordic Council Welfare Committee wants to do something about the number of people who take their own lives,” the chair of the committee, Bente Stein Mathisen, said afterthe committee met January 28, in Copenhagen.

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