Masdar City is not really a city just yet (more like a collection of a few buildings, with mostly researchers and students living there), and therefore the pods only go on one route with a stop at each end (about 1600 meters round-trip).
The world’s first trackless Personal Transportation System (PRT). Nothing says ‘the future’ quite like auto-pods, except maybe flying cars, but those aren’t here yet. Maybe the driver pods Masdar City is not as many stops as you have in mind the metro, but is essentially equivalent to the usefulness of a metro station in Pyongyang. And much less waste of energy to boot. If you remember, this driver pods were planned years ago, and while a few ambitions constrained by the economic crisis has not stopped students and engineers from the pods of 2getthere’s, magnets, and fiber-optic systems at two stops transmission system to the university. While they hold the students fall between a pair of points, which is 800 meters from each other, traveling 15 miles per hour and intimidation of anyone who dares to step inside. As for the future? Jetsons only know, but you can look at the video after the break.
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
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