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Yes, but no discussion of how you'd bring the system down if one broke down mid-trip or how you'd bring it back up. The individual cars only carry power to main
by Tloewald 13y ago
Yes, but no discussion of how you'd bring the system down if one broke down mid-trip or how you'd bring it back up. The individual cars only carry power to maintain speed, no to accelerate, so if they have to stop because something goes wrong, a whole bunch of people are stuck in the middle of nowhere without a toilet (or air?)
- jswhitten 13y agoThere's some discussion on pages 52-54 of the PDF.
- Tloewald 13y agoI stand corrected. In fact it comes down to two paragraphs and doesn't really cover much including, for example, just how long this would take (the cars behind the stalled vehicle would use emergency brakes then proceed at low speed on wheels to the nearest station -- sounds like at least half a day of down time).