Video: AI Safety System Stops Train As Elephants Cross Tracks In Assam

The East Central railways plans to gradually install this system in all other elephant corridors under its jurisdiction

A safety system driven by artificial intelligence (AI) helped stop a train in Assam while a herd of elephants were crossing the tracks at night.

On October 16, the train driver JD Das and his assistant Umesh Kumar of Kamrup Express saw a herd of elephants crossing the railway tracks between Hawaipur and Lamsakhang stations at 8.30 pm. The train was going from Guwahati to Lumding.

On seeing the elephants, they applied emergency brakes and saved some 60 wild elephants from colliding with the train.