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Mass Transit Meets The Incredibles
Chuckstar writes "Salon.com has an article about SkyWeb Express, a futuristic-looking mass transit system similar to the monorail in the evil villain's secret lair in The Incredibles. What is unique about this system is that individual 3-passenger cars travel independently between stations, which are located on side-tracks so cars only need to stop at the final destination. Apparently, the system is relatively cheap to install, cost efficient per passenger mile, and much more flexible than traditional mass transit. The New York Post covered the topic last month."
Mono-doh!
Apparently, the system is relatively cheap to install, cost efficient per passenger mile, and much more flexible than traditional mass transit.
Flexible it would be if Elastigirl helped to invent it!
The dangers of knowledge trigger emotional distress in human beings.
Why in the heck is the word "Web" in SkyWeb?
"Ha ha! We will put the word 'web' in our product's name! It has a computer! From the future!"
an eeeeevil monorail?
Regards, Ian
"travel independently between stations", "cheap to install "cost efficient per passenger mile" "much more flexible than traditional mass transit" Gauranteed to never be implemented anywhere
If you forget about the future, the future will forget about you.
Maybe Lenard Nimoy is available for the opening.
PBS is forcing me to watch ads.
This train waits for ME.
Am I Soviet Russia?
The other is, never do a movie when Vicini is a manager over insurance agents!!! Hahahahahah!!! *gasp* /dead
"All great things are simple & expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope." --Churchill
Sure, part of your vehicle would vaporize and you would probably be centrifuged into your constituent molecules on turns, but just think how fast you could get where you wanted to go?
P.S. I loved "The Incredibles". Thank you pixar for consistently violating the Hollywood tradition of making sucky movies.
When things get complex, multiply by the complex conjugate.
I can already see teenagers "renting" a pod, covering the windows and circling the city over and over and over . . .
This sounds very much like the maze cars of Logan's Run fame.
"Stop whining!" - Arnold, as Mr. Kimble
Because 3 is the magic number.
Because they will.
but which I have to remind myself I will never see in operation in my life.
...before you passed away.
WVU PRT
- Hail to our fearless misleader! Fool speed ahead!
Heh, that makes it sound a little frightening.
Three shall be the number of the seating and the number of the seating shall be three. Four shalt thou not seat, neither shalt thou seat two, excepting that thou then also seateth passenger three. Five is right out.
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Retrofitting isn't too tricky, if the need is sufficiently dire. Consider Oxford St. in London; the last I saw it, perhaps 10 years ago, it was buses and taxis only.
Just say "these streets are buses only", and you're done. It'll help build demand for the buses too. :)