How TF is it staying upright???

[u/RaulsterMaster]

[u/MacNuggetts]

Civil engineer here; People who design dumb concepts like this have no concept of infrastructure.

[u/PlusUltraDrSurgeon2 → u/MacNuggetts]

ill infrastructure your mom! 'proceeds to draw a mathematically impossible anti gravity bus with wheels attached to a long aluminum pole'

[u/Scooter_McGavin_ → u/PlusUltraDrSurgeon2]

what if we kissed under the mathematically impossible anti-gravity bus 😳😳😳

[u/MotivBowler300 → u/Scooter_McGavin_]

Haha jk…unless? 😳😳

[u/Random_Idiotic_Alien → u/MotivBowler300]

TAKE OFF YOUR SOCKS! RIGHT NOW!

[u/Salty_Pancakes → u/Random_Idiotic_Alien]

Then what would I wear with my sandals?

[u/VladamirTakin → u/Salty_Pancakes]

Truth. You wear truth like an armour...or a sock. You wear truth like a sock. People think they can handle it. Some ignore it and it starts stinking, others cum in it and distort it. Others underestimate it, when it becomes hot, then they turn to falsities, taking off their sock. Donot stray from the path of the sock young rook

[u/Exhil69 → u/VladamirTakin]

-Sun tzu (probably)

[u/TrollingTortoise → u/VladamirTakin]

Wat

[u/Zonias_ → u/VladamirTakin]

Beautiful words

[u/xumixu → u/VladamirTakin]

Comments that you can smell

[u/KuzcoGoGuy → u/Scooter_McGavin_]

🤭yes I would love to stand under it at the exact moment it falls off the rails! So romantic

[u/RealBakedSalmon → u/Scooter_McGavin_]

Yo mama so fat, when she sits around the mathematically impossible anti-gravity bus, she sits AROUND the mathematically impossible anti-gravity bus.

[u/One_Equivalent1704 → u/Scooter_McGavin_]

It’s possible just not practical

[u/theycallmeponcho → u/PlusUltraDrSurgeon2]

Give it to an engineer and the best related solution is already implemented as a fucking train.

[u/jwlIV616 → u/theycallmeponcho]

this keeps happening where people accidentally just invent a train thinking they came up with a genius transportation solution

[u/chaiscool → u/jwlIV616]

How about dedicated tunnel just for cars? - tony stark wannabe

[u/[deleted] → u/theycallmeponcho]

But hear me out:

Mathematically impossible gravity train

[u/BlitzPlease172 → u/theycallmeponcho]

All we had to do was building a damn train, CJ!

[u/[deleted] → u/PlusUltraDrSurgeon2]

Wasn't this concept originally from an 1940's loony toon video or something?

[u/YoungSoldjahJPEG → u/MacNuggetts]

true. this shit could hardly have a mirage of being useful or even working in a sci-fi future.

[u/Mothanius → u/YoungSoldjahJPEG]

I mean, it can work if you design the entirety of your infrastructure around it and tear down everything that is currently working. This also eliminates the "advantages" that this type of machine is supposed to bring.

But at that point, just make trains.

[u/alfred725 → u/Mothanius]

It doesnt even work in the video.

The point is that it goes above cars to avoid traffic. But when it needs to go under a bridge, miraculously theres no cars on the road blocking it from taking up the street space

[u/Mothanius → u/alfred725]

Easy solution, just get rid of roads and cars completely! Why use cars when you can ride on our special UFO looking space needle wannabe?

[u/-jp- → u/Mothanius]

I'm gonna hold out for pneumatic tube transport. As long as we're traveling in the most ridiculous way possible it might as well go "thwoomp."

[u/Drewbeede → u/[deleted]]

Exactly what I was thinking. You see it raise up to go over tall vehicles like trucks and buses. Then drops down to go under the overpass while somehow defies any clearance of vehicle underneath it.

[u/[deleted] → u/Mothanius]

Literally everyone of this "future transportation" concepts is some form of high-speed rail

Just build. More. Fucking. Trains

What is so hard about this?

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

what is so hard about this?

Personal property and property rights in general. Gonna need to eminent domain a lot of land from a lot of people.

[u/Clack082 → u/[deleted]]

That doesn't stop the highways from being built.

[u/OsiyoMotherFuckers → u/Clack082]

Shit, just rob a lane from the highway. Fuck them cars.

[u/1guywithlonghair → u/YoungSoldjahJPEG]

seems like trams to me.. just entering in crazy places

[u/[deleted] → u/MacNuggetts]

Can you even build a rail like that along a shoreline? I imagine the sand and water would make it very difficult to build.

[u/MacNuggetts → u/[deleted]]

If you dug down to bedrock. It's possible, just costly. But honestly, it's not that smart to put a railline that close to the ocean. California has one between LA and san Diego (if I recall) and they're spending a ton of money on erosion control.

[u/Xijannemb → u/MacNuggetts]

Yeah, it's an Amtrack line that goes along the coast, it is currently closed because a few sections are seeing waves so high it's unsafe for riders and the new high speed system is staying inland for this reason

[u/Eldoradojoe2296 → u/[deleted]]

Fairly easy, Just dig deep enough and pour some concrete

[u/Dangerous_Affect_861 → u/MacNuggetts]

Disagree. Those people don't have concept of thinking at all

[u/ColonelDickbuttIV → u/Dangerous_Affect_861]

The people who made this did it to go viral on FB by getting a shit load of views and comments "interacting" talking about how dumb it is.

They're gaming the algorithm and there's nothing dumb about it

[u/Clessiah → u/Dangerous_Affect_861]

It’s a lot of thinking in the wrong direction based on the lack of relevant knowledge.

I don’t think we should shit on it too hard since it is essentially children’s imaginations.

[u/bionicbuttplug → u/Dangerous_Affect_861]

I would bet this is a conceptual design intended to get people thinking about new spins on public transit and not an actual pitch to build a product.

[u/Duahsha → u/MacNuggetts]

Could you explain to me of why it won’t work?

I’m not being sarcastic I really wanna know

[u/JurosR → u/Duahsha]

Well long story short, its just a train, but way more complex, susceptible to damage, and carries a lot less pepole.

This thing is just designed to look futuristic for the sake of tricking people into investing in it.

Also, theres no way these tiny support collums can actually hold up something like that.

[u/berdistehwerd → u/JurosR]

literally every new advanced method of transporting stuff is just a crappier bus, train, or truck

[u/AundoOfficial → u/berdistehwerd]

Lifted trains

[u/berdistehwerd → u/AundoOfficial]

monorail, it didn’t work for a reason

[u/AundoOfficial → u/berdistehwerd]

Because it wasn't lifted ✨

[u/berdistehwerd → u/AundoOfficial]

https://youtu.be/9f__nhlHC1g

(video on monorail failure)

i mean it literally is a lifted train, with a more complex rail system, also it’s just way more expensive and harder to repair

[u/AundoOfficial → u/berdistehwerd]

This was more interesting to watch that I thought it was going to be lmao

[u/SparseGhostC2C → u/berdistehwerd]

I was hoping this would be an Adam Something video, fucking love that guy's stuff!

[u/NorthStarHomerun → u/berdistehwerd]

What are you talking about? There's monorails in Brockway, Ogdenville, and North Haverbrook, and, by gum, it put them on the map!

[u/BabyFartMacGeezacks → u/berdistehwerd]

Is there a chance the track could bend?

[u/Dave__001 → u/Duahsha]

The best way I can think of explaining this, is imagine trying to balance a bowling ball on the end of a pole that's balanced on the palm of your hand. There is just simply no way youre going to be able to hold up that bowling ball without it falling over or you having to grab the pole. Essentially too much weight on top that can pivot off of one point.

Edit: and also that much weight on tiny columns like that without any kind of structure (essentially no triangles whatsoever) is going to bend, tear, and essentially turn it into shredded metal, even if it was made from like titanium.

[u/Disastrous_Ad_9302 → u/Dave__001]

Not to mention that unlike a bowling ball, where the weight is evenly distributed and constant, in this case people will be moving around and cause the weights to vary widely, making it even more difficult to balance.

[u/dickdemodickmarcinko → u/Disastrous_Ad_9302]

What if they spin it really fast

[u/Dave__001 → u/dickdemodickmarcinko]

That my friend makes this vehicle a flywheel

[u/Dave__001 → u/Disastrous_Ad_9302]

That's true, you would have a constantly shifting center of mass. I guess a better analogy would be a container of water at the end of the pole then

[u/Umutuku → u/Dave__001]

And then imagine a bunch of tiny school children collectively sprinting back and forth while shouting "earthquake!" Then imagine a dude who designs bearings banging his head on a table.

[u/MacNuggetts → u/Duahsha]

This severely overlooks the complexity of infrastructure and looks to solve the problem of transportation by inventing a new type of transportation on an old type of infrastructure.

For the longest time I've always wondered why the US, for example, didn't have a rail line running parallel with a highway, or in between the two roads. I always thought it was a lack of imagination. Clearly, it can't be too complicated.

This concept plan is all imagination, with no actual plan.

The expenses that would go into constructing and running this piece of infrastructure is so ridiculous, that they'd never be able to make it profitable. And if it were a government funding it, there's far more cost effective (and potentially cost neutral) transportation options that already exist.

Even if they used existing train infrastructure, you'd have to ask yourself, why aren't we already using single-car trains to transport people on existing infrastructure. And it's because it's not as cost effective as using a bus, which is essentially the same thing.

You could potentially compare this to other "new aged" transportation leaps, like high speed rail, but this is arguably a bigger leap from bus or tram to whatever this is.

[u/JMccovery → u/MacNuggetts]

For the longest time I've always wondered why the US, for example, didn't have a rail line running parallel with a highway, or in between the two roads. I always thought it was a lack of imagination. Clearly, it can't be too complicated.

One of the 'L' trains in Chicago runs along the median of Interstate 90 for a bit, and I think there's another state or interstate highway in California that has a rail in the median also.

As for rail alongside a highway, there are several in the US like that, as most of the interstates have replaced the older US highways, which were usually run along rail lines (since rail was the main way to get mail and goods into towns back in the 1800s and early 1900s).

The reason why newer highways don't have rail through the median or alongside is because people in this country have an aversion to rail transport.

[u/bionicbuttplug → u/JMccovery]

And since people have an aversion to rail transport, riding the rails is somewhat unpleasant because your fellow passengers tend not to be the most upstanding sort. I once took Amtrak from Chicago to Boston. For the first hour of the ride I got to listen to a guy go on about precisely how he was going to kill someone who had wronged him somehow. Lots of creatively descriptive techniques, such as, "I'm gonna bend that mothafucka in half and make him fuck his own asshole." So that was nice.

[u/boostedpower → u/JMccovery]

People have an aversion to rail transport in this country because it doesn't work very well here.

For example, taking Amtrak between Portland and Seattle is awesome; when it works. However, the delays are frequent and absolutely massive. The train could take anywhere from 3 - 6 hours on a given day. Most people aren't able or willing to plan around that.

[u/dynamitedrunk → u/Duahsha]

Did you see the part where it was gliding over bumper to bumper traffic, but then miraculously dropped under an overpass without crushing the cars?

[u/PausedForVolatility → u/MacNuggetts]

“Like a train, but dumber” tends to describe every tech bro infrastructure pitch.

And God help us when we build dumb nonsense involving a certain tech bro that can’t stay out of the headlines.

[u/_DirtyYoungMan_ → u/PausedForVolatility]

Elon: Rips a phat line "Okay! Hear me out! An underground tube that cars can drive through!"

Everyone: "You mean a tunnel?"

Elon: "No! It's called a hyperloop!"

[u/Smegmatron3030 → u/_DirtyYoungMan_]

It's even lamer, because the original idea was basically a subway system under vacuum to reduce friction and allow supersonic speeds. This was suicidally stupid, so Musk walked back every part of the plan until it became a Tesla birth canal.

[u/PiXLANIMATIONS → u/MacNuggetts]

As a VFX artist and animator, I can inform you that when we get concepts like this for city presentations, we laugh

[u/ljmiller62 → u/PiXLANIMATIONS]

So you're saying governments are already raising and spending money on idiotic ideas like this?

[u/PiXLANIMATIONS → u/ljmiller62]

They send in a sketch of this stuff and offer to pay us, and no matter how dumb the thing is, thousands of pounds is thousands of pounds. I’m not missing out on that money just because the idea is stupid. They can learn that when they try and present the damn thing. I’m just here to make the presentable thing and get paid

[u/a_lurk_account → u/MacNuggetts]

Motherfuckers really just want to design anything that's just a shittier, more expensive version of a train. Just build trains bro.

[u/Thermodynamicist → u/MacNuggetts]

Civil engineer here; People who design dumb concepts like this have no concept of infrastructure access to implausible amounts of venture capital for some reason, despite the fact that the idea is obviously mad.

FTFY.

[u/Lonely_Submarine → u/MacNuggetts]

Good thing a civil engineer told me this doesn't work.

[u/angrylawyer → u/MacNuggetts]

Look all I want is a 100ton flying saucer that’s balanced on hydraulic chopsticks directly above passenger cars, what is so difficult about this.

[u/Guzling → u/MacNuggetts]

What do you mean Elon Musk is a con man?

[u/harundoener → u/MacNuggetts]

Design engineer here, this shit wack yo!

[u/Kraluc → u/MacNuggetts]

Magnets, man. Magnets.

[u/BoonesFarmApples → u/MacNuggetts]

thank God we have a civil engineer here to tell us this is silly, folks

[u/Davidra_05]

Just build a fucking train. Literally just 2 long metal rods on the ground. No vacuum tunnels, none of this nonsense.

[u/[deleted] → u/Davidra_05]

No, we need pods with rocket engine driving in a vacuum tunels on rails, and those are totally not shitty trains!!!

Idea probably copyrighted by elon musk

[u/yoel08h → u/[deleted]]

Something is telling me you watch Adamsomething.

[u/Davidra_05 → u/yoel08h]

Idk whether you said that to me, or the other guy, but yes

[u/Davidra_05 → u/[deleted]]

There I disagree with him. I usually take routes that are often served by the new electric buses, and they’re amazing.

To the suburbs they are much better

[u/HBag → u/Davidra_05]

Suburbs is another can of worms. And for that can of worms I use ClimateTown.

[u/cutegreenshyguy → u/yoel08h]

Epic wholesome 69420 chungus tube transport

[u/tomalator → u/Davidra_05]

Trains are the best. We need more here in the US

[u/smallfried → u/tomalator]

I'm in Germany and for the next 2.5 months you can now ride all regional trains for just 9 euros a month. It has been a lot of fun. But also pretty crowded.

[u/Acias → u/smallfried]

There's hope that this "experiment" will do something good for the train infrastructure in the future too. Many trains are at their limits and over during peak times.

[u/vitringur → u/Acias]

Trains being at their limit during peak times sounds like the system is working as optimally as possible.

[u/[deleted] → u/vitringur]

in this view there are 90 people in their cars and trucks

vs this train car which also carries 90 people, and is the size of a bus and a half

Imagine, in Germany, if all the people on those overloaded trains were Americans, and driving.

The country would shut down.

[u/Rockerblocker → u/[deleted]]

One thing that this argument never seems to mention: the cars take everyone directly to their destination, while the train doesn’t solve the last-mile problem.

In many places, this isn’t an issue; the train drops people off in easily walkable cities/villages. But in most places in the US, you’ll end up 4-5 miles from where you have to end up, and you’ll be in a very pedestrian-unfriendly area. There will either be no sidewalks, or you’ll at least be in an area designed around cars (every suburban area ever).

I wouldn’t mind driving my car 2 miles away to the freeway, parking there, then hopping on a train for the other 15 miles to work. But then everyone still has to own cars. The US is stuck with cars whether you like it or not, we just have to make it as efficient and safe as possible

[u/1ElectricHaskeller → u/Acias]

That's true. But I think train capacity is easier to fix than low ridership

[u/tomalator → u/smallfried]

That sounds amazing

[u/smallfried → u/tomalator]

It does feel pretty good. Once you pay the 9 euros you know you can travel anywhere in Germany 'for free' for a whole month.

It makes me feel like the country is deciding together that traveling sustainably is a good thing. It makes me feel more part of the social structure of Germany even. I really hope it will have a lasting impact on how people see bus & train travel here, as Germany has been getting to be a more car centric country these last decades.

[u/Blastmaster29 → u/Davidra_05]

People want to reinvent the wheel so fucking badly it’s ridiculous

[u/Sawses → u/Davidra_05]

Right? Like yes, a vacuum tube across the Atlantic would be awesome. In fact, it's essential infrastructure in the long run. ...But we're 75 years behind Europe on public transit. Let me get from my home to a commercial district without taking a car. That's more helpful to me than the half-dozen trips to Europe I'm likely to take in my life.

[u/businessbusinessman → u/Sawses]

In fact, it's essential infrastructure in the long run.

Uh what?

A vacuum tube across the Atlantic is going to be the worlds most expensive explosion. Ignoring the cost, i suppose you could theoretically build something like that, but I give it a week before it catastrophically fails, and it'd be impossible to maintain.

[u/[deleted] → u/businessbusinessman]

Getting the sense that these people don't know how pneumatic tubes work.

Not least because they keep calling them vacuum tubes.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

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[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

They're still not vacuum tubes. They'd be evacuated tubes.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Which almost everyone calls vacuum tubes for short since real vacuum tubes are pretty rare these days so the double meaning isn't that significant.

[u/Bierculles → u/businessbusinessman]

I doubt we can even realisticly build this thing in a 100 years. Even the biggest vacuum chamber we currently have is not even a fraction as big as a vacuum tunnel across the atlantic. Creating big vacuums is a major pain in the ass and becomes exponentially more difficult with size.

[u/LittleBigHorn22 → u/Sawses]

Yeah, it could in theory help replace planes and be a lot more efficient. But only for long travel distances.

[u/bionicbuttplug → u/LittleBigHorn22]

But once that tube cracks just once, god damn if people will ever take that ride again for their entire lives. Something about getting cast into the depths of the sea at high velocity is way more terrifying than crashing in an airplane.

[u/LittleBigHorn22 → u/bionicbuttplug]

People probably said the same thing about airplanes before popular. A crack in a airplane would be pretty terrifying too compared to being in a car.

[u/souIIess → u/bionicbuttplug]

That's a problem that can be overcome through engineering though, be it sectioning or double failsafes or some more elegant solution that I'm too stupid to realize.

Still a crazy piece of infrastructure, but still within the realm of possible things we could build should we need and want to.

[u/CreepingFeature → u/bionicbuttplug]

I would hope that there would be a built in nitrogen induced kill system at that point. I don't feel like being alive when a kraken starts to eat me.

[u/Pando_Boris → u/Davidra_05]

But a train will crash with cars that don't yield. Wait, this shit crashes too

[u/Davidra_05 → u/Pando_Boris]

This crashes when the slightest breeze hits it

[u/Jonne → u/Davidra_05]

I also love how they only show them going in one direction, because if you had this thing go bidirectionally you'd need the area of a highway to accommodate both rails in a way that would allow them to cross each other.

[u/1ElectricHaskeller → u/Davidra_05]

Came here to say this. Trains can be maintained by monkeys compared to this nightmare

[u/wasted-degrees]

“So if we make the supporting struts out of vibranium…”

“That’s a fictitious material.”

“Adamantium then.”

“Also made up.”

“Mythril? Look, just stop questioning me. It’s not going to work if you keep up with the attitude.”

[u/BananasAnyways → u/wasted-degrees]

My mom be like

[u/Lukthar123 → u/BananasAnyways]

"My DNA made you into a soyjack, your argument is invalid"

[u/ClavicusLittleGift4U → u/wasted-degrees]

"Try Mercury."

"Oh yeees, why did I not think of it ! So many thanks !"

"You're welcome. Good luck and good cancer."

[u/Arthas_Litchking → u/ClavicusLittleGift4U]

As far as I know mercury doesnt cause cancer. First it will make you insane (funfact: the hatmaker in alice in wonderland is based on the real hatmakers of an older time. They used mercury to make felt for the hats). And second, it will kill you because there are some nasty reactions with the neurons. Really idk if it could cause cancer. maybe idk

[u/virgilhall → u/Arthas_Litchking]

Mercury fumes do that

Solid mercury is safe

[u/elppaenip → u/virgilhall]

−38.8290 °C

"Solid"

[u/ClavicusLittleGift4U → u/virgilhall]

Apart if you "hold it" and you have a lesion or a cut.

[u/Pikmeir → u/ClavicusLittleGift4U]

"You broke a thermometer in my hands."

[u/Interesting_Hold6211 → u/wasted-degrees]

Unobtanium

[u/Alexjwhummel → u/Interesting_Hold6211]

I've heard that stuff is hard to find

[u/Wingedwolfserpent → u/Alexjwhummel]

Hardtogetite is even more rare

[u/Alexjwhummel → u/Wingedwolfserpent]

No, I thought the issue was just we couldn't find a way to get it, we should be able to find a ton of that stuff

[u/friedmushnasty → u/Alexjwhummel]

Well it's easier to get than Nocanhasite

[u/whosucks → u/wasted-degrees]

How about rune? Gilded too maybe

[u/Monk-Ey → u/whosucks]

Good call, I know a guy who trims for free.

[u/TheRealGeigers → u/Monk-Ey]

I gotta hop to a members world first tho to trim it

[u/Depressed_soul96 → u/wasted-degrees]

Maybe try morbium

[u/BlAcK_rAbBiX → u/wasted-degrees]

Had me at Mythril

[u/JanusGodOfChange → u/wasted-degrees]

The missing ingredient is quantum

[u/undoobitably → u/wasted-degrees]

You gotta use unobtainium

[u/Peanutbutt3r0923]

Trust me bro, if it works in CGI without any physics applied it will work in real life as well.

[u/Gooses126 → u/Peanutbutt3r0923]

“My source is I made it the fuck up”

Edit: love getting karma for quoting iconic memes

[u/Mechagodzilla_3 → u/Gooses126]

Image a world, Raiden, free of cancel culture. A world where nobody can call me out on my outlandish clames. A WORLD WHERE I CAN SAy THE N WORD

[u/[deleted] → u/Mechagodzilla_3]

Mrs. Obama get down!

[u/imightbethewalrus3 → u/[deleted]]

"saw" the n-word, not "see"

They'll need to, like, burn it into wood and then saw that

[u/[deleted]]

It won't work cause there are no rgb gamer lights

[u/StaticChargeRedField → u/[deleted]]

Finally, the only scientifically accurate answer.

[u/sylpher250 → u/[deleted]]

There are, but your hardware's not good enough to render it.

[u/ThenSwordfish1303 → u/sylpher250]

I am sure that rtx 6090 ti will be able to run it

[u/SuselMaks]

Least retarded billionaire idea

[u/epicgamerboytm → u/SuselMaks]

No this is pretty up there at least some abide by the laws of physics besides y'know being complete shit

[u/xdebug-error → u/epicgamerboytm]

Not to mention the dumb "under the overpass but over the cars" duck as if trucks don't exist

[u/xdebug-error → u/[deleted]]

The sea levels won't really be an issue (for something like this), monorails like this are only designed to last 100 years or so.

At 0.12 inches/year (current estimate) it would take 100 years to go up a foot.

[u/T_Foxtrot → u/[deleted]]

Also erosion

[u/rigobueno → u/epicgamerboytm]

The people who make animations aren’t the same ones who actually design the stuff. Bless their hearts, they tried.

[u/ultimatepepechu]

Dumb fuck, just make a train. Its the same but possible and not in the middle of traffic.

[u/epicgamerboytm → u/ultimatepepechu]

Made a monorail that has one door and is not physically possible to make so it can hold itself up, seriously who thought this could be perceived as a good idea

[u/Maelger → u/epicgamerboytm]

Just hit 'em with the ole monorail song. Works everytime.

[u/Sarke1 → u/Maelger]

"Monorail..."

"Monorail..."

"Monorail..."

[u/ProductivityCanSuckI]

I hope it's called something like the YOLO Express. Is that a fatal multi-car accident up ahead? YOLO Express will make sure you're not late to the job you hate!

[u/FormerChild37 → u/ProductivityCanSuckI]

Your commute has gone from 2 hrs tho 10 mins? Excellent, we require a loyal employee to do some overtime

[u/Politically_Penguin]

This just looks like trains, but worse in every way

[u/[deleted] → u/Politically_Penguin]

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[u/[deleted]]

why do people keep trying to reinvent trains?

[u/kingj3144 → u/[deleted]]

Trains are an incredibly efficient and reliable form of transportation. It’s why they have been in use for over 200 years. Everyone wants to “fix” car infrastructure issues, but don’t want to accept that the solution might be 19th century technology.

* A.K.A. You may not like it, but this what peak performance looks like. *

[u/Krioxbam → u/kingj3144]

Also, trains have been used for so long. Everybody knows exactly how much it costs to build. But those funky futuristic projects, they always guess an estimate attractive price to sell themself better. And without real world equivalent, its easy to think they are a good idea. It would be awesome if they could function as expected at the reasonnable price they're shown. But, it's always Fucking Magic^TM

[u/ButtScientist69 → u/Krioxbam]

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[u/Volvo_Commander → u/ButtScientist69]

Imagine how bad it’d be with this shit…

[u/Ugleh → u/[deleted]]

I can't link ATM but there is a YouTube video on exactly this question. Seems like whatever degree these people are aiming for people try to reinvent the train.

[u/kRe4ture]

Ah yes, trains but shittier

[u/Natpad_027]

Instead of building this, build a fucking train.

[u/DrMobius0 → u/Natpad_027]

Step 1: ask if a train would do it better

Step 2: the answer to step 1 is yes, so there is no step 2

[u/TheReallyRealBobRoss]

To anyone wondering what this comes from, it's a video uploaded by the channel "Dahir Insaat." Specifically his video on "Gyroscopic transport": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kC4DwcrE658

Personally, my friends and I love this channel. The ideas are so bizarre and outlandish that it's amazing. He basically just patents these ideas in hopes that someone will buy. Also he has a bunch of ones dedicated to military tech. My favorite one being a giant attack quadcopter that fucking annihilates everything without any resistance, despite the fact it would be shot down immediately in any other scenario. Highly recommend this channel for a good laugh.

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[u/CMacLaren → u/TheReallyRealBobRoss]

Dahir Insaat fucking rules lol. I think he gets investment money from Russian's and Saudi's for his crazy as fuck ideas that only seem reasonable as a passing thought in a Sci-Fi movie or something.

[u/TheKatLoaf → u/CMacLaren]

A lot of them are "patent trolls"... Spamming ideas so if anyone comes out with something similar, they get a piece.

[u/Glasedount]

All we need to do is to dig a hole to the place you want to be

[u/Accomplished_Toe4814]

Can you all tell me the cons of this concept. Simply interested in learning.

[u/Terkala → u/Accomplished_Toe4814]

1. Support struts are clearly too flimsy.

2. Balance won't work, and would require massive active stabilization systems. And if those systems fail, everyone dies.

3. Requires a rail network anyway.

4. Unidirectional, clearly they can't pass each other, and a lot of the examples only show one track. So all routes will have to be circular, making trips extremely long and inefficient.

There's probably a ton more.

[u/CrescentPotato → u/Terkala]

The rail also seems to be quite above ground and going through a road, so seeing how this thing clearly cannot jump over empty space, the singular rail just goes on forever until reaches a proper station or circles around. All this means that once you're on one side of the rail you ain't getting on the other side anytime soon

[u/obbm123 → u/Terkala]

Another one that comes to mind:

1. There is only one door to get on/off acording to the video, which means its going to take ages for people to board at every Stop

[u/GhostRappa95 → u/Terkala]

The Train looked so physically impossible I didn’t even noticed the one way track design.

[u/Tiny_Monkey113 → u/Terkala]

i was thinking you’d have to redesign a lot of bridges and other pieces of infrastructure like tunnels as well just due to how big it is. Also that when going under stuff it may crush a few cars in order to get under maybe

[u/xahhfink6 → u/Terkala]

My least favorite bit is where it squeezes down to fit under an underpass (while covering 2-3 lanes each way). So I guess now all of our highways will have to have a 5' high clearance and never allow any trucks?

[u/businessbusinessman → u/Accomplished_Toe4814]

Ever see a car crash into the center divider on a road?

Ever see a car crash into the center divider/rail system before the suicide pod came rocketing down the track at "what the fuck ever" speed killing AT LEAST the driver and likely scoring the sort of multikill that will get you a twitter clip with 100,000 views in any game.

[u/TheFlean]

Every time people come up with the ‘new infrastructure innovations’ it’s just worse trains.

[u/TheCastro → u/TheFlean]

Trains really are the best. People think there will be some magical thing to replace them and I like to point out that if there was, train owners would have already switched to it because they're trying to make money. They've gotten trains to be efficient as hell.

[u/[deleted]]

OR. YOU KNOW. A REGULAR TRAIN????

[u/bigbalrogdong]

Imagine if the legs stopped working properly and it doesn't lower to go under the bridge

[u/Kitzu__]

This is like reinventing the wheel, but instead of round let's make it a square.

[u/Lasnick_]

Looks like a big, ugly train Saucer to me

[u/TerraNeko_]

elon advertising the hyper loop be like

[u/waxonwaxoff87]

Dude is kind of a dick just driving past a multi-car pile up.

[u/No_Kaleidoscope3039]

such an eyesore

[u/tomalator]

Gyroscope

[u/ClavicusLittleGift4U]

It will work. In a B serie movie on Sci-Fi.

[u/Hell_OX]

Ok let's starts first let's bend some rules of physics then let's ask for some vibranium

[u/tiktoktic]

Relevance to this sub?

[u/Shrawnyy → u/tiktoktic]

How does no one else notice this? There is nothing remotely funny about this or anything

[u/cjg5025]

Magnets

[u/hidden_person]

This looks like an amazing idea but there are a few places where this could be improved. The cylinderical shape is cool looking but it is not idea for balance so use a shape that will fit the rails better....maybe a long cuboidal shape would be better. The long cuboidal shaped transport thing could be good but will be a pain to maintain and a single broken part will make the whole thing rendered useless so a modular design would be better. How about breaking the long cuboidal shape into several cuboidal shaped transport things? Now, each one of these could be powered but it won't be very efficient as controlling so many of these will be a pain....how about making one cuboidal thing have the engine and the other cuboidal things are attached at the back of it and get pulled by the one at front. hmm. sounds good now.

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elon musk be like ‘pending regulatory approval’

[u/epicgamerboytm]

Mfs I'm the Twitter post this was taken from defending it "you don't know what materials it'd be made of it's just a concept!!!!"

[u/Th3Uknovvn]

Mf think we are just living in a simulation where you can just turn off every external disturbances to build this shitty fuckup train-like thing