[ExI] shweeb

[Dan]

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.

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.)

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.

Regards,

Dan


From: spike <spike66 at att.net>
To: ExI chat list <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
Sent: Tue, October 12, 2010 4:13:08 PM
Subject: [ExI] shweeb


Is this cool or what?
 
http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/innovation/10/12/shweeb.urban.transport/index.html?hpt=C2

 
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.)
 
spike


      
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