Re: The Roads Must Roll -- In Japan, at least

In <vgtp9k$15899$1@dont-email.me> Cryptoengineer <petertrei@gmail.com> writes:

On 11/11/2024 1:32 PM, Scott Lurndal wrote:

Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> writes:

On 11/10/2024 9:58 AM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:

Noted by Sarah Hoyt with the blurb:
    IT'S HEINLEIN'S WORLD. WE JUST LIVE IN IT.
>

 
Here's the actual video, without the right-wing clickbait.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0v0zAxu5Wo
 

Looking at the video, I'm not seeing a conveyor belt,
but small driverless vehicles driving on a prepared
pathway. It's not clear how they're powered, or where
the 'smarts' is located.

Still, a cool idea.

what I'd like to see... 1/4 height veh's using the lower, covered-by-the-roadways,
semicircles at the bottoms of the Loncoln and Holland tunnels in NYC (and
likely other places.)  Many tunnels are circular metal frames with
the roadways suspended about midheight, with the lower, "vacant", so
to speak, space carrying positive pressure air from "outside" which
then is pushed into the overheads and back to the great outdoors
(using additional "pull" fans).

With the _much_ cleaner mix of traffic these days (yes, there's more
of it, but still much less annoying), there's likely spare room..



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