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Self-balancing commuter pods ride old railway lines on demand (newatlas.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 96 points 1 month ago (16 children)

Great, now we can have traffic but on these old rails.

How about, and I know this is a radical idea, actually fixing up the old rail lines and putting trains on them instead of this gimmick?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (14 children)

This wouldnwork better on smaller scale, less traveled rural routes. Maintaining a whole ass train for a few dozen people is overkill. I kinda like this.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I know it's kinda cheating to bring them up in this context, but the Swiss manage to run trains to very small towns just fine

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