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Wow it transports 20 people. ooooh I have an idea, what if we connected a bunch of these together... in a long chain and put them on tracks to make them more energy efficient (and to meet power needs) then ran them along the most popular transportation corridors in major cities! They could even go in tunnels in places like NYC to reduce traffic!
Golly Elon is on to something this time!
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Paul Chernoff
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in reply to smells of bikes • • •I really hope fewer people are falling for his BS this time around. We already have self driving taxis in prototype that are more practical. (and yet still not practical. )
And ... public transit is awesome and could benefit from modernization and love. Fix the elevators and the NYC subway would be space age.
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Medea Vanamonde🏳️‍⚧️ ♀
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John Timaeus
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If they do induction charging there will need to be a thing that lowers the coils onto the charging pad to get it close enough to not waste tons and tons of power.
And if you are going to do all that why not just plug the damn thing in and have almost no loss?
Andrew Feeney
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I’m curious what kind of strength magnetic field would be generated for charging at that scale too. Would that be unsafe for people with ferrous implants or devices?
Maybe it’s fine, I genuinely don’t know.
myrmepropagandist
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He's making the damn 7 train seem like space age tech.
Clifton Royston
Unknown parent • • •I think his real mission is to make trains look awesome by comparison with cars and driving.
Now at @aj@gts.sadauskas.id.au
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Ladies and gentlemen, here's the automated self-driving electric pod system of the future! 🤯
These electric hyperpods arrive every 4 minutes on weekdays and every 10 minutes on weekends.
After passing through the futuristic platform screen doors, it whisks you to your destination through a tunnel at speeds of over 100km/h, including under Sydney Harbour.
I call it... The Sydney Metro!
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myrmepropagandist
Unknown parent • • •Trains are the crabs of transportation "innovation."
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Charlie Stross
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What's the airliner equivalent—the Boeing 737/Airbus 320 convergence?
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Trezzer (aka Helvedeshunden)
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in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •I dunno. 20 people doesn't seem like a lot.
I wonder if there's an electric vehicle that might hold a few more than that?
Jeremy Kahn
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I feel like @annaleen will have something useful to add here, after reading THE TERRAFORMERS
Oskar im Keller
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