@femphysics FACTS
"So we were thinking dedicated self driving car lanes"
"If we hoist these autonomous pods up above traffic and have them run on demand, they can link to save power"
"Cars! In a tunnel!"
JUST BUILD TRAINS YOU ABSOLUTE FUCKWITS
@iyalei @femphysics but that's not #futuristic and #cool looking, so when #Elon doesn't go out of his way to do the #Hyperloop scam solely to sabotage #CHSR (#California #HighSpeedRail) you can see shitty #TechBros doing other grifts like the #Ottobahn, which is what happens when someone had a bad LSD trip on the #Wuppertal #Dangletrain:
Yoi get a shittier & absurdly more complex overhead-#monorail for rich #Wankers, cuz #Pods instead of #Cabins!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy5UtabeVAQ
@iyalei @femphysics also note it didn't take 85 seconds into the video for them to lie:
A single #pod coasting in a small office circle is not a "full-scale prototype", that's not even a full-scale maintenance depot...
And for some reason these #grifters are more successful than #Siemens who basically deliver the same (#SAFEGE-Style System) but as turnkey-ready setups AND in a comfiguration that is at least somewhat makes sense as #PublicTransport...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeYTtlXywUI
@iyalei @femphysics I mean it's not as bad as #Monorail which have 0 technology sharing or transfer from overhead-monorails that use the same steel beams and steel wheels as regular railways and can use the same switch technology...
@iyalei @femphysics I mean, I find #CarCentrism to be utter bullshit and a scam at best.
Like the whole concept of suburbia...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IsMeKl-Sv0
This is the 3rd video in the Strong Towns series, and is probably the most important core topic: the fact that American car-dependant cities are financially ...
@CatDragon @iyalei @femphysics If you look closely, those "#pods" are absurdly small.
Their #CGI bs only shows single occupants but let's give them the doubt and claim they can hold 2-4 maximum...
So yeah, it's a grift to steal tax funding better used for public transport and make something worse than self-driving taxis & minibuses with an overly complex and pricy system that won't have the economics of scale to be affordable for the average wageworker!
@CatDragon @iyalei @femphysics OFC #VTOL's are eben worse than private jets as even the biggest and "disruptively economical" ones like the #AW609 have total operational costs of U$D 875/h - not including the pilots' pay - and can barely hold a dozen people.
Again: #Taxis but worse and more expensive, so not affordable even for people earning trice the #MinimumWage...
@CatDragon @iyalei @femphysics in the end, #Ottobahn - even if it ends overcrowded like the #TeslaTunnels - is even being outmatched by the smallest #Dangletrain (#Düsseldorf #SkyTrain) and doesn't even compete with the #Chiba overhead #monorail...
It's absolutely.useless and the fact that they seemed to have been given a testing area in the overpriced and overcrowded vicinity of Munich speaks volumes about #lobbyism...
@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] so um, how many passengers does Otto hold? Because I’m not seeing the workability here as far as commuter density. Or is just government subsidized rails for a folks with big privilege ?
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