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[–] destructdisc@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (8 children)

I'd think a short, reversible, single-car tram (like Coventry's VLR) would work a hell of a lot better for connections between villages/small towns than Uber for rails with needlessly complicated gyroscopic bs.

[–] LeMoonStar@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Well, keep in mind we're talking about long single tracks spanning many villages and towns - in places where there is not a ton of demand. The train would: 1. Rarely be there in the moment somebody actually needs it 2. Almost always be empty.

Notice I said the monocab ain't meant as "mass" transport. You wont see 30 monocab back on back all the time - you'll see one, maybe, every half an hour or so - but they'll be there when somebody needs them - not uselessly when nobody cares.

These are much more, as somebody else already pointed out in the videos comments, I believe, indented to replace call busses - instead of having to call a bus and wait half an hour or more, you can just hop into a mobocab which is on standby and get moving.

[–] destructdisc@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

you can just hop into a mobocab which is on standby and get moving

The train would: 1. Rarely be there in the moment somebody actually needs it 2. Almost always be empty.

The mobocabs won't actually be there when someone needs them, either. They're on rails. They're not going to just be hanging out somewhere in the middle of the line so they can show up in a couple of minutes, they'll be on standby at a trainshed on either end of the line. It's going to take like 30 minutes for one to arrive -- at that point you might as well just have a tram that comes every 30 minutes or so

[–] LeMoonStar@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

And that's where you might have a misconception. As I said, I've seen them in real life before and had the opportunity to talk to some people working on them. As far as I understood, they will have stations. (I read your message as you assume they'll stop at any point on the track - they don't). They will stand by these stations and move along to make space for any subsequent monocab.

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