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Chinese train never stops for passengers but they still board/exit

Trains crash with some regularity due to mechanical failure as it is, not to mention operator error and poor maintenance, and making the system more complex introduces more potential failure points. Obviously being a concept there is a lot more to do to move to actual production and putting this thing in use, but it would be spectacular the first time this docking system fails.
 
LogGrad98 said:
Trains crash with some regularity due to mechanical failure as it is, not to mention operator error and poor maintenance, and making the system more complex introduces more potential failure points. Obviously being a concept there is a lot more to do to move to actual production and putting this thing in use, but it would be spectacular the first time this docking system fails.
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Try telling that to the victims families you ****ing *******.
 
The only problem with this is people getting from the pod to the train and back again. People are generally morons and I can see many getting cut in half trying to catch the pod at the last minute or go back for their phone. Every pod would have to come with a bouncer for this to work.
 
heyhey said:
The only problem with this is people getting from the pod to the train and back again. People are generally morons and I can see many getting cut in half trying to catch the pod at the last minute or go back for their phone. Every pod would have to come with a bouncer for this to work.
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Or a door that locks before the pod dismounts.
 
Gameface said:
This concept is not entirely new. I know I've seen plans for commuter trains that use smaller vehicles to dock and pickup/drop off passengers before. I think it's the specific way this one works that is new.
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See, those chinese people are still thinking inside the box. Just making the box the cheapest, most economical box you have ever seen. Well, you might see millions of them, because they are mass producing them so quickly...
 
The connection between the pod and the main train would need to be like an elevator of some sort. That way the worst that would happen is you get stuck in the elevator and miss your stop, less likely to get stuck between the pod and train.
 
LogGrad98 said:
The connection between the pod and the main train would need to be like an elevator of some sort. That way the worst that would happen is you get stuck in the elevator and miss your stop, less likely to get stuck between the pod and train.
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And if there was and elevator, then they could take people in wheelchairs.
 
I fell into a youtube hole

this one was pretty cool though
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1gTzc7-IbQ&list=PLZtTlBx6zaKStw2zgactQ5-pf05ldfzP3
 
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