▲ 199 ▼ Self-balancing commuter pods ride old railway lines on demand (newatlas.com) submitted 2 years ago by floofloof@lemmy.ca to c/technology@beehaw.org 79 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Aldehyde@kbin.social 20 points 2 years ago (1 child) I immediately thought about connecting multiple of these together to make a train haha permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] midnight@kbin.social 22 points 2 years ago Connect them together for efficiency, and maybe use both rails for stability and to reduce design conplexity. (you dont even need any additional infrastructure!) Also, have them arrive regularly, so that users don't need to bother with an app! Brilliant! Seriously though, it's really amazing how people keep inventing trains but worse. I guess this idea makes some sense if there aren't enough riders for regular train service, but still... permalink fedilink source parent
[–] midnight@kbin.social 22 points 2 years ago Connect them together for efficiency, and maybe use both rails for stability and to reduce design conplexity. (you dont even need any additional infrastructure!) Also, have them arrive regularly, so that users don't need to bother with an app! Brilliant! Seriously though, it's really amazing how people keep inventing trains but worse. I guess this idea makes some sense if there aren't enough riders for regular train service, but still... permalink fedilink source parent