Comment on Self-balancing commuter pods ride old railway lines on demand
MrFloppy@feddit.de 1 month ago
I think “Draisy” is faster on the track and a much more realistic project. “Monocab” is a University project, so it’s ok for me that a few millions are invested there.
Landsharkgun@midwest.social 1 month ago
Yes, this looks much better. My other thought would be road-rail buses, but getting on/off the tracks might be too much work to be worth the extra flexibility.
echodot@feddit.uk 1 month ago
I’ve seen one of those in Japan. Even they admit that the only reason they continue to run it is for the novelty factor, it’s apparently quite expensive to keep going and not really that efficient.
It takes a good while to convert between the two modes since you have to be really careful you don’t please align the thing and result in a derail. So it’s done, very, very, slowly.