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What's in the video? A one-sentence summary would save everyone a lot of time.
by morcheeba 5y ago
What's in the video? A one-sentence summary would save everyone a lot of time.
- yosamino 5y agoI haven't watched the video, but based off of the title "Pod train" the argument is probably along the lines of this: There is a futuristic theme in logistics that envisions humans or cargo to be shipped in "pods". This is in contrast to the more efficient way of shipping humans or cargo in larger vehicles like trains or busses. These pod-ideas inevitable run into some bottle-necks or have to make trade-offs that in the end give them so much lower efficiency than the "traditional" way which is already the (almost) optimal solution to a given problem. Examples of this are various incarnations of hyperloop, that do not actually solve all real-world problems existing solutions have to deal with, but rather only a subset of them - but they are better at this subset plus they look fancy in their renderings. This makes it so these impractical solutions get a lot of hype, and money is spent on prototypes, but there is a lot of hot air and little substance.
- mike_d 5y agoTL;DR: Someone who actually knows trains points out that the designers eliminated all the benefits of rail while designing something that requires the entire existing rail network to be changed to support it (which will never happen). I think the biggest nail in the coffin is that they are targeting short haul lines, which are often the least maintained and require human supervision to operate on for safety and logistical reasons. For example, short haul lines use manual switches - so every time two tracks split or come together you have to have a human present.
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