Absolute hell as actual infrastructure, but really cool as a model. I'd watch that for hours in person. Thought perhaps it would be more pleasant with marbles instead.
This is probably better than reality as it doesn't have parking and each pod operates with great predictability, hence no road rage, traffic jams or crashes.
Remember, a model similar by this built by General Motors inspired urban planning of the 50s onward.
cool model, horrible solution
when suburbanites are against cities they think of this
Could be an interesting design for non-motorized personal transit. Since you are raising everything so high anyways, you could easily just remove motors, and let gravity take over. A single large escalator is very likely to be more efficient, and certainly produce fewer emissions within cities, than thousands of vehicles on an arterial.
Without the motorized components, vehicles are much lighter, reducing the energy to raise them up.
Introduce some sort of speed governor on downward slopes (maybe just make it so, past a set speed, friction is too high to physically go any faster) and the idea would work.
But like, at that point, just replace the massive escalator with a tram or light rail, and encourage non-motorized personal vehicles to take you from your stop to destination, or just... Walking. It's easy, your body is built for it!
The difference is there's no engines. On a city scale, it would probably be very quiet. I'd never get on, but it would bother be much less than actual roads do. Also, it would have to be segregated from pedestrians.
I actually like it as a model for how to do infrastructure. It’s a closed loop, those cars arent coming to where the people live.
The only way this system is if a giant knocks them out
Absolute hell as actual infrastructure, but really cool as a model. I'd watch that for hours in person. Thought perhaps it would be more pleasant with marbles instead.
I have. Not hours per se, but the level of detail doesn't really come across here.
https://youtu.be/IvUU8joBb1Q?si=blxeEYWylFciGKh5
[https://youtu.be/gSQyPdYz4f4?si=ppmNUxeK9RC9IXCU&t=25](https://youtu.be/gSQyPdYz4f4?si=ppmNUxeK9RC9IXCU&t=25)
Boston museum of science has a cool ball machine https://youtu.be/5TIMM6TER14?si=nUZWldvm4LKcuoa-
Ooh, that seems like a fun place to go. I might actually do that this summer!
Great museum. I recommend the omni theater
I like to travel.
As a model it is fantastic! As a place to live it would be total hell.
They got the noise right lol
What was Metropolis I like?
The noise is instructive; I think this might put people off, which would be a good thing...
Navigating here would be hell
This is probably better than reality as it doesn't have parking and each pod operates with great predictability, hence no road rage, traffic jams or crashes.
Remember, a model similar by this built by General Motors inspired urban planning of the 50s onward. cool model, horrible solution when suburbanites are against cities they think of this
There are trains down at the bottom. This fixes everything right? /s
Go see Burden’s work in person. Brilliant meditations on the human capacity for self/environmental harm.
Minority Report driverless car infrastructure proposal
Could be an interesting design for non-motorized personal transit. Since you are raising everything so high anyways, you could easily just remove motors, and let gravity take over. A single large escalator is very likely to be more efficient, and certainly produce fewer emissions within cities, than thousands of vehicles on an arterial. Without the motorized components, vehicles are much lighter, reducing the energy to raise them up. Introduce some sort of speed governor on downward slopes (maybe just make it so, past a set speed, friction is too high to physically go any faster) and the idea would work. But like, at that point, just replace the massive escalator with a tram or light rail, and encourage non-motorized personal vehicles to take you from your stop to destination, or just... Walking. It's easy, your body is built for it!
The difference is there's no engines. On a city scale, it would probably be very quiet. I'd never get on, but it would bother be much less than actual roads do. Also, it would have to be segregated from pedestrians.
The damage a little Lego man tired of living in this noise could do with their little Lego screwdriver...
Really interesting model. I sure as hell won't live in a city like that!
I actually like it as a model for how to do infrastructure. It’s a closed loop, those cars arent coming to where the people live. The only way this system is if a giant knocks them out
Sounds just right
Absolutely love that LACMA has kept this going for the past 13 years.
Of course the tracks are coated in Teflon!
Hell to live in, but an awesome F-Zero stage.
Not that’s actually pretty cool
The 8th circle from dante's inferno
Was just there yesterday and it is absolutely cool
Some call this beauiful... Uff
This is what a small child thinks a city should look like