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Minirail a solution for mass transit?
Posted: Fri May 17, 2024 6:59 pm
by Uncle fester
Always thought a light rail system with minicars would be ideal for urban areas and a missed opportunity instead of looking at self driving cars.
Get rid of cars and turn roads into railways. Instead of a driveway, you have a rail siding and key in where you want to go, then sit back and enjoy the ride.
No dopes cutting red lights.
Read a book or play on your phone instead of fuming in bumper to bumper traffic.
Software will probably manage heavy traffic better than impatient, inefficient humans.
Electric so no fossil fuel emissions in urban areas plus economy of scale usage.
https://newatlas.com/transport/monocab- ... uter-pods/
Re: Minirail a solution for mass transit?
Posted: Fri May 17, 2024 7:04 pm
by Sandstorm
Uncle fester wrote: Fri May 17, 2024 6:59 pm
Always thought a light rail system with minicars would be ideal for urban areas and a missed opportunity instead of looking at self driving cars.
Get rid of cars and turn roads into railways. Instead of a driveway, you have a rail siding and key in where you want to go, then sit back and enjoy the ride.
No dopes cutting red lights.
Read a book or play on your phone instead of fuming in bumper to bumper traffic.
Software will probably manage heavy traffic better than impatient, inefficient humans.
Electric so no fossil fuel emissions in urban areas plus economy of scale usage.
https://newatlas.com/transport/monocab- ... uter-pods/
Great for a night out or commute to work, shit for grocery shopping when you still have to lug your bags 3 blocks home after you get out the pod at the station.
Re: Minirail a solution for mass transit?
Posted: Fri May 17, 2024 8:58 pm
by Uncle fester
The pod would be in your own driveway!
Instead of a driveway, you have a rail siding
Re: Minirail a solution for mass transit?
Posted: Fri May 17, 2024 11:05 pm
by Guy Smiley
Ok...
personal transport handled by smart EVs. Key in destination and route and the 'car' joins the line travelling the same route, coupling in and on like a train carriage so that all units provide a share of the motive power and overall consumption is reduced through aero efficiency and load spreading. Individual units join or decouple as needed with the group accommodating that through the use of slip lanes.
Re: Minirail a solution for mass transit?
Posted: Sat May 18, 2024 12:26 am
by Niegs
Sandstorm wrote: Fri May 17, 2024 7:04 pm
Uncle fester wrote: Fri May 17, 2024 6:59 pm
Always thought a light rail system with minicars would be ideal for urban areas and a missed opportunity instead of looking at self driving cars.
Get rid of cars and turn roads into railways. Instead of a driveway, you have a rail siding and key in where you want to go, then sit back and enjoy the ride.
No dopes cutting red lights.
Read a book or play on your phone instead of fuming in bumper to bumper traffic.
Software will probably manage heavy traffic better than impatient, inefficient humans.
Electric so no fossil fuel emissions in urban areas plus economy of scale usage.
https://newatlas.com/transport/monocab- ... uter-pods/
Great for a night out or commute to work, shit for grocery shopping when you still have to lug your bags 3 blocks home after you get out the pod at the station.
With the way things are going, urbanites will all be fatties like in WALL-E and our groceries will be brought to us by Amazon robots via these mono pods.
Not me, though, I'll be running a grub worm 'greenhouse' in a rural commune, likely in Sector 7-G...
Re: Minirail a solution for mass transit?
Posted: Sat May 18, 2024 9:21 am
by Uncle fester
Guy Smiley wrote: Fri May 17, 2024 11:05 pm
Ok...
personal transport handled by smart EVs. Key in destination and route and the 'car' joins the line travelling the same route, coupling in and on like a train carriage so that all units provide a share of the motive power and overall consumption is reduced through aero efficiency and load spreading. Individual units join or decouple as needed with the group accommodating that through the use of slip lanes.
Well yes