<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><DIV>I'm not sure how this would work as ever more users started to use it. How would people get around each other on the rail? What happens when someone in front of you stops? Unlike with a sidewalk or a multi-lane street -- where you can go around people, bikes, or cars in most circumstances -- I reckon you're just stuck until she or he does something.</DIV>
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<DIV>Would you have to have so many rails that it'd look like those old photos where dozens of separate wires went from pole to pole on each street? (Not to mention the load of hundreds of thousands of these. That's an easier problem to solve, but it might drive up the price tag.)</DIV>
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<DIV>Even if these hurdles are overcome -- maybe by use being so low that they don't arise -- I imagine it won't be for everyone: certainly not for the claustrophic or the acrophobic.</DIV>
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<DIV>Regards,</DIV>
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<DIV>Dan</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif"><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> spike <spike66@att.net><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> ExI chat list <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Tue, October 12, 2010 4:13:08 PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> [ExI] shweeb<BR></FONT><BR>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=453435919-12102010>Is this cool or what?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=453435919-12102010>I would ride one. It solves a lotta problems in urban transportation, and the infrastructure cost can be held down by the fact that the individual shweebs are lightweight. We could make motorized pods about every tenth one, so that they can be used by the ADLED crowd (aged, disabled, lazy, exalted, dilatory.)</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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