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If higher capacity is needed you can always link multiple units together

• closewith 1y ago
  In CVLR, you actually cannot as the extreme bogey angles mean they can only operate individually. You also can't order longer cars. You can run them at high frequency though.
  • mhandley 1y ago
    With computerized control and a comms link between the vehicles, you could probably have one vehicle follow 1m behind another, so they are effectively a train. If you still have a driver at all, you only need one in the front vehicle.
    • closewith 1y ago
      I don't think you could do that for CVLR specifically as it's not segregated from traffic and the second car would have to react individually to vehicles, pedestrians, roundabouts, etc.
      • mhandley 1y ago
        If it's really just 1m behind, it doesn't need to respond individually to anything except pedestrians. And you can solve that with some extensible tapes that actually do connect the vehicles to prevent pedestrians walking between them.
• analog31 1y ago
  Linking multiple units means making the stations longer. A more likely scenario is to deploy more units and deal with staffing by migrating to autonomous operation.