[ExI] shweeb

[Adrian Tymes]

Read the article.  You're not the only one to have such concerns.

This seems fundamentally impractical outside of the largest of cities.  If
you have the
population density to make rails viable, you have the population density to
make powered
vehicles on those rails viable - see subways, and trains in general.

Now, there is something to possibly be said for a wider network of rails
using smaller,
auto-piloted pods summoned like elevators.  The more destinations it can get
close to, the
more useful it will be, especially if it can make its schedule reliant on
its riders' instead of
vice versa.  Although, those rails had better be enclosed and inaccessible
(like an elevator
shaft) unless you're in a pod or have special maintenance access, else the
first suicide
(throwing self in the path of a pod) might shut the system down.  (This is a
problem with
Schweeb too.)

2010/10/13 Dan <dan_ust at yahoo.com>

> 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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