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From: danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Re: The Roads Must Roll -- In Japan, at least
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2024 20:54:17 -0000 (UTC)
Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC
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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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