High Speed Travelator

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Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday July 4, 2003 @01:08AM from the umbrella-jousting dept.

Anonymous Award writes "Remember those old Isaac Asimov tales of cities of the future, where everybody walked along on moving sidewalks, sometimes clear across a country? Today's airport travelators have always been disappointingly pale imitations of these, but now in Paris we may be seeing the true birth of this wonderfully dangerous mode of mass transportation. Its already as fast as a bus, but when they can crank them up to motorway speeds... well, lets just say this may have a better chance of having cities designed around it than certain other recent innovations."

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Yeah. by Faust7 · 2003-07-04 01:13 · Score: 5, Funny

Am I the only one who would be embarrassed to use this simply by virtue of its name?

"How are you getting there?"
"Oh, I'm taking the travelator."
"...."

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Very Neat by squaretorus · 2003-07-04 01:14 · Score: 5, Funny

I read this this morning on the BBC and immediately booked a weekend in Paris for myself and my beloved - hey its summer, the flights were under 200 sterling return and I cant wait to see her fall on her arse as we get on this thing!

I'm just hoping they dont stop you taking skateboards onto this thing!
Mmm.. lawsuits.. by walmass · 2003-07-04 01:14 · Score: 5, Funny

US personal injury lawyers are already lobbying to bring this to the USA.
Re:You know... by io333 · 2003-07-04 01:15 · Score: 5, Funny

Not if it travels in a tunnel and they evacuate all the air.

I loved that old story. I hope this really happens!
Re:Transition by x0n · 2003-07-04 01:16 · Score: 5, Funny

Yep, it's all very clinical and precise until you bring alcohol into the equasion.

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Coming Autumn 2003 by dewie · 2003-07-04 01:17 · Score: 5, Funny

He's been sent back through time on a mission: to move between different locations!

Arnold Schwarzenegger is... "The Travelator".

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Will it be like... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-07-04 01:17 · Score: 5, Funny

... in Futurama - where if they malfunction or you don't know how to get off them properly - you get spatted against the nearest wall???

Pfft... tourist.
Re:You know... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-07-04 01:28 · Score: 5, Funny

"But if you enclose the belt in a tube, with air moving with the speed of the belt (either artificially propelled or just "pulled" by the belt), the wind resistance becomes less of a problem."

Until you fart! "Damn, this smell has been with me all the way from Pittsburgh!".