New concept of locomotion
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And they win 1 million $ at this project
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Hi Pilou
interesting concept**
Well,,, not for old or young people, not for a mother with children, not for people with diseases, not for "no sport!" people, not for elegant people, not for shopping people.....
Not for complex city roads..
But the energy by food is going to be very cheaper than gazoline
*simon
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It's cool, but it won't work, at least not for anything more than pleasure, partly for the reasons Simon mentioned, but also because of bodily functions. In a car you stop get out find a toilet or a bush and you're done, in these you're stuck till the next station. If the stations are half an hour apart then it may work but for journeys more than an hour I don't think so.
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Hi Pilou
That kind of mean of convenience can be only used for short distances. I hardly imagine the whole landscape covered with the structures. Have we to pay for the transportation ?? quite funny, an very very old idea with new clothes. ( Remember that Train is born from Middle Age mining transportation ...)
MALAISE
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Hmmm, looks like a fun thing but I wonder how practical it is.
Will you need to go to a Shweeb station to start and another to end? What about destinations, is there only one on your rail? as you cannot steer or veer off to interconnecting Shweeb rails you are stuck to that route only.
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And do you know this one?
Kolelinia (very detailed!)
(see other projects on the same site HalfBike and Kolelinia)
Kolenia by MArtin Angelov
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Surely, a high tension stress using this way...Trafic jam avoid, permanent electric shock threat...!
MALAISE
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Can't believe those guys won. The rest of the ideas must've been terrible. There are so many reasons why that system wouldn't work: People are out of shape, how do you pass someone going slowly, what if someone stops mid-track for any reason, how do you bypass people at a station, where would the room be found to install this, etc... This idea seems like a closeted geek idea for getting around that Google campus and dependent on that "Can't we all get along?" mentality that expects and/or believes people will provide equal effort to make something work. Try installing something like that in Boston, I can see the fights already. I can already see Americans wanting to put motors in them as well; why pedal?
Google should've awarded something practical that could have been implemented realistically, not a gee-whiz impractical idea.
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