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I wish someone would give PRT a chance. Something like skyTran could be built for 1/5th the cost and would be significantly faster for commuters (since most tim
by JDDunn9 11y ago
I wish someone would give PRT a chance. Something like skyTran could be built for 1/5th the cost and would be significantly faster for commuters (since most time is spent at stops before yours).
- Grishnakh 11y agoYep, I say this all the time, and people think it's an even crazier idea than bigfoot and alien sightings. Somehow, it's realistic to think about us all having self-driving cars dealing with the chaos of city traffic and pedestrians, and it's realistic to propose spending billions and billions of dollars on slow light-rail systems which require years of construction where the roads are all torn up, but it's completely bonkers to think about building a system with elevated rails hanging on utility poles and small, autonomous cars riding on these rails for only $1 million per mile. I can't wait until Israel has their SkyTran system working so all these idiots in America won't be able to say how "impossible" it is.