Comment on Self-balancing commuter pods ride old railway lines on demand
erwan@lemmy.ml 7 months agoOK, it’s 2pm. With this system, you call a pod and ride it. With a rural train, you check the schedule and see that the next train is at 5pm. And you have to plan your trip back as well. Great, time to take your car.
And you might say “let’s have trains run at least once per hour then”. That means running empty trains all day, not sure it’s the best way to spend public money.
i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
If your options are waiting at the station up to 2 hours for a pod or waiting anywhere else 3 hours for a train, are the pods better?
erwan@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
Obviously if the pods take 2h to arrive it’s not worth it