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

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I think "Draisy" is faster on the track and a much more realistic project. But "Monocab" is a University project, so it's ok for me that a few millions are invested there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yes, this looks much better. My other thought would be road-rail buses, but getting on/off the tracks might be too much work to be worth the extra flexibility.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I've seen one of those in Japan. Even they admit that the only reason they continue to run it is for the novelty factor, it's apparently quite expensive to keep going and not really that efficient.

It takes a good while to convert between the two modes since you have to be really careful you don't misalign the thing and result in a derail. So it's done, very, very, slowly.