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Self-balancing commuter pods ride old railway lines on demand (newatlas.com)

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

The Brennan monorail rides again!

Some of this technology may sound a bit "over-ambitious," but keep in mind the project was inspired by a fully functional self-balancing monorail that mechanical engineer Louis Brennan designed and demonstrated back in the early 1900s.